Violence at Fresnes prison: a guard will be tried

A guard of Fresnes, already convicted by the justice for violence on a detainee, was referred this Friday, May 12 for similar facts and will be tried before the criminal court of Créteil (Val-de-Marne) on October 27, said the prosecutor.

The prosecutor's office requested that he be placed under judicial supervision, with a ban on exercising "any function of prison guard", travelling to Villejuif and contacting the victim.

'Lack of self-control'

This 41-year-old guard is assigned to the semi-liberty unit (QSL) of Villejuif, which depends on the Fresnes penitentiary center. He was taken into custody on Wednesday as part of an investigation opened after a complaint from a detainee for acts committed on April 24. The civil servant had already been sentenced in 2018 by the Paris Court of Appeal to ten months of suspended imprisonment and a four-month public employment ban for violence against a Fresnes detainee in 2015.

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According to the court ruling, seen by AFP, the guard had shown a "lack of self-control" by slapping and grabbing a detainee in his cell by the throat. An administrative investigation was then opened and the supervisor went before the disciplinary board.