Le Figaro Nantes
He allegedly hanged himself in his cell.
Officers from the Nantes detention center discovered a man apparently dead on Tuesday March 5 during their first patrol of the day, a little after 6 a.m.
“The staff intervened, but were unable to resuscitate him
,” confirmed to Le
Figaro
the Interregional Directorate of Prison Services in Rennes, on which the Nantes establishments depend.
The victim died during the night.
An autopsy to come
Locked up alone, the 30-year-old had been serving a series of sentences since January 2023.
She had been convicted in particular for cases of theft and damage, our colleagues from
Presse Océan
learned on Tuesday .
An autopsy was ordered by the Nantes public prosecutor's office, which opened an investigation into the causes of death.
The possibility of suicide nevertheless remains favored.
If this hypothesis were to be confirmed, it would be at least the third case of an inmate having killed himself within the penitentiary center since the start of the year.
Nationally, the record milestone of more than 75,000 detainees was reached in December.
“The prison system is not capable of absorbing more serious sentences
,” warned the Nantes public prosecutor, Renaud Gaudeul, in January, recalling that the occupancy rate of the local penitentiary center exceeded 175%. .