Trials by Videoconference: Covid-19 Cases Disrupt Proceedings at Toulon Courthouse

Trials by videoconference made their return this Wednesday to the Toulon courthouse. Several detainees who were to be tried according to the mode of immediate appearance were not extracted from the La Farlède remand center. In question, an upsurge in cases of Covid-19.

More than twenty men, all placed in pre-trial detention in one of the two remand centers of the Toulon-La Farlède penitentiary center, have been infected with the coronavirus which caused a global pandemic in 2020 The second prison is not concerned.

According to a lawyer, appointments between clients and their counsel have even had to be canceled in recent days.

Sanitary masks and plastic gloves

Three detainees imprisoned in the affected building and who were to be tried on Wednesday thus appeared by interposed screens with a sanitary mask on their faces and plastic gloves.

The hearing was able to be held in this way before continuing with defendants referred “in person” until late in the evening.

According to the latest statistics from the prison administration, some 518 men were detained in remand center at La Farlède on July 1, 2023, for 394 places, i.e. a prison overcrowding rate of 131.5%.

2023-08-02 22:49:15
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