A woman in pre-trial detention for terrorist offenses was caught in Fresnes prison (Val-de-Marne) as she tried to escape, the justice ministry told AFP on Sunday, confirming information of the Parisian.
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According to the daily, the young woman aged 31 would have managed to escape from her cell via "a hole" that she would have made in the wall and would have been caught "on the rampart" of the prison. "The prison administration confirms that this morning it thwarted an escape attempt in Fresnes," the Ministry of Justice told AFP.
"It was immediately made to carry out a check of all the cells of the district women to make sure that it was indeed an isolated attempt", added this source. "An investigation is underway", entrusted to the national anti-terrorism prosecution, it was added. The latter did not respond to AFP. “The girl didn't go far, she just got out of her cell actually. The prison has done its job, ”said a source familiar with the matter to AFP.
According to this source, “this detainee is not the most dangerous.
She was not connected with terrorist companies.
Even if it was in the theater of operations abroad ”.
According to Le Point and Le Parisien, it is Douha M., a “ghost” from Syria, indicted in December 2017 for having joined the ranks of the Islamic State group.
The Chancellery stressed to AFP that "4.5 million euros of the 2022 budget are precisely planned for the complete security of the area of Fresnes.
This is the biggest operation of the 100 million euros security plan voted for next year ”.
