Updated on 08/26/23 at 5:00 p.m.
After a fire in his cell on Friday evening, a detained died at the prison of Nanterrein the Hauts-de-Seine, said a police source this Saturday to AFP. The body of the deceased was found charred, detailed this source, adding that around forty detainees had to be evacuated.
An investigation to find the causes and circumstances of his death has been opened, announced the Nanterre prosecutor’s office, requested by AFP. The detainee was 35 years old, the prosecution said. He had been incarcerated since April 2022 following a conviction in immediate appearance and the release of several previous sentences.
Nanterre, an overcrowded prison
The Nanterre penitentiary center accommodated 974 people for 592 places as of May 30, representing an occupancy rate of 165%. Entered byInternational Prison Observatory (OIP) and several organizations of lawyers, justice ordered in December the prison administration to take eight emergency measures to improve the conditions of detention in this establishment.
These organizations again took legal action in early June to put an end to the “permanent and endemic state of indignity” and the “alarming chronic overcrowding” of Nanterre prison. In an order dated June 30, the judge in chambers of the administrative court of Cergy-Pontoise (Val d’Oise) issued two additional injunctions to the Justice Ministrynamely to allow electrical repairs “identified as necessary” and repairs to air vents “identified as defective”.
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