The Lyon Bar said on Monday that it had appealed to the administrative courts to request more protections against the Covid-19 for detainees and lawyers at the Lyon-Corbas prison, where a case was detected on April 4.
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"Since then, very little has been done to protect the detainees incarcerated there," denounced in a press release the Bar Association which, together with an inmate of the remand center, filed a request for interim release. He denounces in particular the absence of masks "for auxiliaries" (prisoners ensuring the distribution of meals, cleaning of common areas ...), hydro-alcoholic gel or even disinfectants "for washing cells", which are "9m2" and in which "almost no prisoner is alone".
In addition, barrier gestures are "impossible (s)" to respect when the detainees are "put in cramped locks with several before going for a walk", according to the Lyon bar which also underlines "the slowness of medical care in case of suspected contamination ”. "Such dysfunctions endanger prisoners as well as prison guards, as well as the lawyers who come to visit their client," he continues, describing their "defense mission" in the prison as "a real health risk-taking".
The applicants asked the judge in summary proceedings to "pronounce several injunctions" to the director of the prison establishment in order to regularize the situation. The judge of the summary liberty must rule within 48 hours, according to the same source.