An inmate from the Fleury-Mérogis penitentiary center (Essonne) escaped this Friday morning during an outing to the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac museum in Paris, the Évry prosecutor's office said on Saturday, confirming information from the Actu17
site
.
A flagrant investigation has been opened, the prosecution further specifies, adding that a search warrant has been launched, added the prosecution.
This inmate benefited from a leave of absence to participate in a visit to this Parisian museum with other inmates, supervised by prison guards, according to the prosecution and a union source.
Aggravated theft
Aged 24, he was serving a two-year sentence for aggravated robbery, according to a source close to the case.
In mid-September, two inmates from this same penitentiary center escaped during an organized outing in the Fontainebleau forest (Seine-et-Marne), before being found a few weeks later.
Since then
“there has been better supervision”
of these detainee releases, underlined the local secretary of the Force Ouvrière union in Fleury-Mérogis, Didier Kandassamy, contacted by AFP.
The largest penitentiary center in Europe, the Fleury-Mérogis prison accommodated 4,125 inmates on January 1, 2024, including women and minors, for 2,853 places, i.e. an occupancy rate of 144.6%, according to the Ministry of Justice.