After the police, it is the turn of justice personnel to count the first death of the Covid-19 in their rank. According to concordant sources, Claude L., a 54-year-old prison supervisor assigned to the Orléans-Saran prison center (Loiret), died in the night from Wednesday to Thursday at his home. In sick leave for several days and followed for suspected virus contamination, he suffered a cardiac arrest following a pulmonary embolism. Married, Claude L. had the rank of first supervisor and therefore had a supervisory role.
The possible spread of the coronavirus in French prisons is causing serious concern, the magistrates' union even seeing it as a "powder keg". On Wednesday, the UN called on governments to "work quickly to reduce the number of people in detention". As part of government orders, 5,000 inmates at the end of their sentence will be released early and confined to their homes. Thirteen inmates tested positive for Covid-19, 400 had symptoms of the disease, 90 warders had the virus, and 1,270 had symptoms).
On the side of the personnel of the Ministry of the Interior, a first gendarme died Thursday of the consequences of the epidemic. Like Claude L., Patrick G., marshal of the house, 51-year-old chief assigned to the interministerial control group (GIC, administrative tapping), had been on sick leave for suspicion of Covid-19 for a few days. His condition deteriorated sharply on Thursday and he died of cardiac arrest at his home at the Maisons-Alfort barracks (Val-de-Marne). To date, no police officer has been a victim of the virus, but several are hospitalized in serious condition.