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Philippe Claudel: "A karting in Fresnes, why not?"

2022-08-26T17:45:23.415Z


TRIBUNE – The writer and filmmaker, general secretary of the Goncourt Academy, was a long-time professor in prison. He defends the controversial sports activity organized at the Fresnes prison, which shocked the vast majority of the public.


Mr. Keeper of the Seals,

Can I confess that I was shocked that you were shocked?

On Saturday August 20, you published on Twitter, this organ of fast-thinking, a message in which you expressed your astonishment at the dissemination of images where we saw detainees from Fresnes prison taking part in a karting race, as part of an event organized by a local association with the approval of your administration, and which brought together prison staff, prisoners, young people from the city.

You ordered an investigation.

You said in the same message that

"the fight against recidivism certainly does not go through karting!".

What do you know?

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I apologize for being so abrupt, but what do you know of the virtues of karting?

I myself, I confess to you, know nothing about it, but I have no hasty judgment on its virtues or lack thereof.

However, what I do know is this: to be sentenced to prison is like being prohibited from…

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Source: lefigaro

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