Marseille lawyers had taken legal action in the name of respect for human dignity. They deplored the conditions of police custody in two police stations in the city.
The State ruled in favor of the bar of the Marseille city, and ordered the Ministry of the Interior to carry out "daily cleaning" of the jails of the North and of the Bishopric, headquarters of the police. The Ministry also has one month to systematically offer “to each of the people held in custody within the Northern division police station’s cells”