Goodbye public service career.
This Tuesday evening, the prison supervisor, tried by the Criminal Court of Créteil for having introduced drugs into the prison of Fresnes (Val-de-Marne), was banned from exercising.
He was sentenced to an 18-month prison sentence including a six-month suspension, a sentence that could be adapted under an electronic bracelet.
Incarcerated on January 15, the defendant appeared free.
"It's a huge mess," said the public prosecutor, qualifying her facts as "inadmissible".
She had required a year in prison.
His 25-year-old accomplice, tried for corruption and drug trafficking, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with a modification of the sentence in semi-liberty.
"I have a feeling of shame"
Employed at the Fresnes prison since 2017, his first position, the supervisor sank into this traffic to pay for his consumption of at least 10 joints per day.
“I have a feeling of shame and I am aware of having betrayed the institution.
I would like to do what is necessary to cure my addiction, ”apologized to the bar this 41-year-old father, before asking the court for forgiveness.
The case began in May 2020 with the transmission of a report from several supervisors and detainees.
A guard would smuggle cannabis resin, cocaine, alcohol and also meat into building D 3 of the prison.
The drugs were just stowed away in his jacket
As the investigation progresses, the tongues are loosened, as the president reminded us at the hearing before reading certain statements from detainees.
"A supervisor came through the door and delivered a bottle of alcohol and 100 grams against 50 euro bills", relates one of them.
Another mentions "1 gram of cannabis resin sold for 20 euros, 2 grams for 40 euros and 4 grams for 50 euros", while a bottle "of 50 cl of whiskey is sold for 150 euros.
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Without going into details, the defendant admitted the majority of the facts, while minimizing.
"How did you pass the drugs during the checks?"
»Asks the president.
"I put it in my jacket pocket, like meat and cell phones," explains the supervisor.
For alcohol, I put it in a water bottle.
"We know what the controls are worth ...", quips the president.
For drugs, the prison officer obtained supplies from the second defendant, but for his personal consumption.
A version denied by the latter at the hearing.
"He was paid by taking his share of drugs that I provided him to deliver a contact," says the other defendant, imprisoned for other business.
According to him, he would have delivered it five times, without ever specifying the quantity.
Even if his little game lasted from January 1, 2019 to January 12, 2021, the date of his arrest, by investigators from the judicial police of Val-de-Marne, the supervisor would not have enriched himself.
“There is no moment suspicious movement on his account, recalls Me Sivane Erlich, his lawyer.
He is not a trafficker but a drifting drug addict who has accumulated large rent debts.
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In full separation with his wife, he paid the rent of the apartment and a room at the Grand Foyer, on the site of the penitentiary.
Investigators had also found more than 50 grams of cannabis resin during the searches.
"The prison should be razed," said the president
In the course of the president's questions, the prison trial emerges.
Thus, to deliver his customers, the supervisor changed positions with other colleagues to be able to go in the passageways.
"We know that it is the big bazaar in the taking of posts, loose the president before returning to her business of drug trafficking.
You are not the first or the last to do this.
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Thus, in March 2020, a nurse overwhelmed with love for a prisoner was convicted of having smuggled drugs.
A year earlier, the head of the visiting rooms had been taken into custody for passive corruption.
And the president of the tribunal to pass this final sentence: “It's a disaster.
Fresnes prison should be razed and moved on.
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