During its six months of work, the commission focused on the prison treatment of Franck Elong Abé, but also in the circumstances surrounding the attack and the reasons for maintaining the status of "detainee particularly reported" (DPS) of Yvan Colonna, which prevented his transfer to a Corsican prison.
With a question in the background: why was Franck Elong Abé in ordinary detention and how could he find himself alone with Yvan Colonna for 15 minutes? Because the hearings highlighted the worrying profile before and during the detention of this man, also classified DPS, who went to fight with the Taliban in Afghanistan in the early 2010s and who has multiplied incidents in prison.
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"Reckless risk-taking"
During her hearing, the former director of the prison of Arles Corinne Puglierini had even assured that the "behavior" of the prisoner with psychiatric disorders upon his arrival in Arles "did not allow an evaluation at the radicalization assessment unit (QER)". However, she had reported a positive development that had justified being granted at the end of 2021 a coveted position as an "auxiliary", to clean up the prison's sports halls.
An astonishing "leniency" according to the commission and "the antipodes" of the "excessively rigorous" prison treatment of Yvan Colonna, points out the report. According to the latter, the detainee should never have been placed in conventional detention and even less worked, alone, in contact with other detainees. The report speaks on this point of a series of "manifest" errors of assessment leading to this "reckless risk-taking".
