A supervisor of the La Talaudière (Loire) penitentiary center was assaulted on Tuesday April 13 by a detainee in his thirties who was taken into custody, said the Saint-Etienne prosecutor's office.
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The victim, aged 53, "
was taken to the CHU from which she has just left to be heard by the police service in charge of the investigation ordered by the Saint-Etienne prosecutor's office, then by the medical service legal which will establish the duration of his ITT
”- total interruption of work -, declared to AFP Stéphane Scotto, the interregional director of the penitentiary services of Lyon, who went there.
"
The inmate threw bleach in her face, then punched her in the face, then stuck his fingers in her eyes and tried to bite her neck, just as he bit a of our colleagues to a calf
”, for his part indicated the representative Ufap-Unsa of the penitentiary center near Saint-Etienne, Jean-Luc Perrot.
Several other supervisors who came to rescue their attacked colleague were, according to him, likely to have been slightly injured during their intervention.
On April 3, several dozen detainees refused to leave the promenade yard and return to their cells.
They demanded in particular "
more game consoles, the removal of Plexiglas in the visiting room and more food in the canteen,
" said the same source.
“
In this context of tension, the morning team refused to take up duty,
” added the union representative, stressing that two sections of the Regional Intervention and Security Team (Eris) were sent as reinforcements.
According to Jean-Luc Perrot, the prison administration has agreed to transfer soon to other prisons several detainees whose behavior is problematic, as it has already done in recent days after the rebellion of April 3.
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