“The process was fully respected,” a spokesperson for the prison administration assured

A prisoner from Vendin-le-Vieil was authorized by the court to go to the Lyon region on Monday, sparking controversy on Sunday.

“The process is fully respected“, showed Monday, November 24 in franceinfo Justine Gerbaud, spokesperson for the prison administration, while an inmate of the new unit to combat organized crime at the high security prison Vendin-le-Vieil (Pas-de-Calais) obtained leave on Monday, giving rise to misunderstandings in the prison officers’ union. This permission should allow the prisoner, who could be released in 2029, to go to the Lyon region this Monday to meet a potential future employer.

“An appeal has even been submitted“, explains Justine Gerbaud, “since the prosecutor, who opposed this permission to leave, appealed the initial decision, and however, included in the appeal, this permission was confirmed“. The prison administration spokesperson also emphasized that”a certain amount of guarantee“transmitted”ahead of this meeting“.

Justine Gerbaud recognizes that this situation creates “the difference between the very strict framework imposed in the anti-organized crime district of Vendin and the idea of ​​permission to leave“. However, he emphasized that “The Ministry of Home Affairs announced that there would be special monitoring of the release of these prisoners“. And a prison administration spokesman recalled that”inmates of Vendin-le-Vieil and Condé-sur-Sarthe (the first two high-security prisons) will be released“and it”permission to leave is one of the important tools for reintegration“.

It is in this context that the Minister of Justice expressed his intention on Sunday to change the rules for applying penalties in organized crime cases, by creating, as in terrorism cases, “special laws and special implementing judges who know perfectly the dangerous profile“.”This is the idea of ​​being able to adapt the detention regime and also the application of punishment to the particular dangers of these detained persons.“, confirmed Justine Gerbaud.