Le Figaro Marseille
It’s an escape that certainly caused some teeth-grinding within the Marseille prison administration.
On Tuesday, an inmate incarcerated at Baumettes prison in Marseille took advantage of his semi-freedom regime to escape from the penitentiary establishment,
Le Figaro
learned from reliable sources.
According to a well-informed source, this prisoner of foreign nationality was in a semi-release center and did not return to detention as provided for by his mode of incarceration, which allows the detainee to leave his prison to follow a education or vocational training according to a defined schedule.
Special fact: this detainee, still wanted this Wednesday, was under an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF).
An investigation has been opened to shed light on this matter.
“Their place is in administrative detention”
An embarrassing situation for the administration of this emblematic penitentiary center of the Marseille city, increasingly confronted with escapes of this type.
Internally, we are also surprised to see prisoners under OQTF arrive in the prison, usually placed in an administrative detention center (CRA) when they are arrested.
“It’s a known problem and often reported by law enforcement
,” criticizes a source from Le
Figaro
.
“Sentence enforcement judges choose to place this type of prisoner in judicial detention, while their place is in administrative detention
,” underlines this source.
At the beginning of last March, an inmate incarcerated in Aix-en-Provence also escaped from prison, leaving the prison guards during a
“gardening activity”
provided by his release support structure (SAS). .