"I have been assaulted and abused for almost a year and a half," she said last November from her cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York. If her conditions have not changed much since then, the accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein can now practice an activity: learn a foreign language. The latter, who is already fluent in French, Italian and Spanish, asked permission to take Russian lessons. A request that has been accepted under certain conditions.
Deprived of paper and pencil as part of her anti-suicide surveillance, Ghislaine Maxwell is allowed to learn the language on a laptop, and only through a CD player.
“It helps keep his mind focused and preserve his sanity,” a source told the
Daily Mail
.
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Placed under suicide watch, Ghislaine Maxwell continues her detention in solitary confinement.
As the British newspaper reports, the ex-collaborator and accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein in his sex trafficking networks of minors, now only wears cotton clothes, does not read books, and cannot use sheets or pencils. .
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“Weak” and “frail”
Through her lawyer, Ghislaine Maxwell continues to denounce the conditions of detention imposed on her. In February 2021, his lawyer Bobbi Sternheim was already reporting "physical violence" against his client, the latter being "at the mercy of a group of guards". Last November, the defendant had herself declared: “I haven't had a single nutritious meal in all this time. I haven't slept without lights on - fluorescent lights that hurt my eyes - or been allowed to sleep without being constantly interrupted." The inmate had described herself as "weak" and "frail". “I have no stamina. I am tired. I don't even have shoes in my size. They give me rotten food. There were maggots in an apple.They don't let me exercise."
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Ghislaine Maxwell is subject to optimal vigilance due to the alleged suicide risks.
A precaution linked to the death of Jeffrey Epstein, found dead hanged in his cell in August 2019. The investigation had concluded to a suicide and to dysfunctions in the organization of the guards responsible for his surveillance in the Manhattan prison, where he was incarcerated.
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