Several prison unions have been blocking the central house in Arles since 6 a.m. this Thursday, August 4, for an indefinite period
,
in order to protest against the questioning of a guard by a report from the General Inspectorate of Justice on the assassination of 'Yvan Colonna, violently attacked by another detainee.
In the wake of this report, submitted Thursday, July 27, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced that the former prison director, Corinne Puglierini, and a supervisor were going to be subject to "
disciplinary procedures
".
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According to this report, the supervisor in charge of the wing where the Corsican separatist was - who was serving a life sentence for the assassination of the prefect Claude Érignac - showed a "
clear lack of vigilance
" in remaining "
without any distant reason
" from the place of the facts, which lasted nine minutes.
“This supervisor is a scapegoat”
“
Mobilization this Thursday August 4 in front of the prison of Arles in support of our colleague targeted by a disciplinary procedure concerning the attack on Yvan Colonna on March 2.
There is no question of a prison staff serving as a fuse or a culprit!
tweeted the Force Ouvrière FO Justice union.
This mobilization was announced.
On Tuesday August 2, the Ufap Unsa Justice union called for the prison to be blocked.
“
This overseer is a scapegoat.
He is accused of everything when he only did his job to the best of his abilities and respecting the instructions given to him.
For us, the faults that have been committed come from the prison administration as a whole, from the Ministry of Justice
”, denounced Tuesday to AFP Thomas Forner, Ufap delegate from Arles.
"These people who write the reports behind a desk, I would like them to come to work, not for a day but for several weeks, in the shoes of a supervisor to see what they endure at work
", indicates his side. at
France Info
, Jessy Zagari, Force Ouvrière regional delegate for Corsica and the Paca region.
“
For years, the penitentiary has been in such conditions that the fuse is the agent who does his job with the equipment and the means which have been provided to him by the administration
”, he continues.
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On March 2, Yvan Colonna was fatally attacked in the sports hall of the central house by Franck Elong Abé, a 36-year-old Cameroonian jihadist who was serving several sentences, including one of nine years for "
terrorist criminal association
".
The Corsican separatist, co-author of the assassination of the prefect Érignac in February 1998, died of his injuries by suffocation and strangulation after three weeks in a coma.
In front of the investigators, his attacker had justified his act by affirming that Yvan Colonna would have blasphemed and
“spoke badly of the prophet”
.
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