Research was underway on Saturday to find nine men who escaped Friday evening from an administrative detention center (CRA) set up on the premises of a police academy in Oissel (Seine-Maritime), AFP learned on Saturday. from a police source.
“
The nine detainees escaped around 10:00 p.m. by breaking a wall
,” said this police source, confirming information from the 76 Actu site.
As soon as the alert was triggered, searches were launched, added this source, adding that the device was lifted overnight without the escapees having been found.
Friday evening, police officers from the Rouen police station came as reinforcements for the search.
These resumed on Saturday morning and an escape investigation was opened.
According to the police source, the wanted detainees are of Algerian and Tunisian nationalities.
The escape would have occurred in the premises of the CRA, belonging to the police academy, installed on the site, where police students had remained on site for the weekend.
The prefect of Seine-Maritime Pierre-André Durand and the zone director of the border police went on site.
Saturday afternoon, the police source spoke of “
difficult
” searches due to the location of the CRA on the edge of the forest.
A volunteer from the CRA Oissel visitor network and citizen observatory confirmed the escape of nine people without having more information at this stage.
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Considered to be dilapidated, the Rouen-Oissel CRA was the subject in 2018 of a report by Cimade, which works with foreigners.
In this document, the association confirmed the obsolescence of the Oissel CRA.
The Unsa police union in Seine-Maritime reacted to AFP, and “
requests a budget envelope for carrying out work at the CRA for the safety of our colleagues and so that this type of situation cannot happen again
”, underlining moreover that the building in question, "
located within the confines of the police academy is not really suitable
".