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Sixty detainees refused to return to their cell on Monday at the Fleury-Mérogis prison, after another suicide Saturday in the largest prison in Europe, facing a black series since the beginning of the year
Inmates on the same floor. After their walk in the courtyard, "about sixty detainees of building D4 refused to return to their cell, in solidarity with a deceased detainee," said Thibault Capelle, local representative of the union FO Penitentiary. The protest movement, launched around 5 pm, lasted nearly three hours. The detainees returned to their cells only after the intervention of the Regional Intervention and Security Teams (Eris), the "police" of the penitentiary. "All the detainees were on the same floor as the one who killed himself on Saturday," the trade unionist said.
Nine detainees who have committed suicide since January. The prosecutor's office in Evry, Essonne, confirmed the suicide of a 22-year-old man, "in the disciplinary area" of the prison Saturday. "He was found hanged," he detailed. An investigation has been opened. The prison of Fleury-Mérogis, where are confined 4,300 men and women, faces an unusual recrudescence of suicides since the beginning of the year. At least nine inmates have committed suicide since January, more than in the previous two years. Since 1 January, 60 inmates have committed suicide in French prisons, according to a count of the prison administration on July 23.
In 2017, 117 suicides were recorded in prisons in France, a rate of 14.6 for 10.000 crowned.
Suicide of an inmate in the prison of Riom, in the Puy-de-Dôme
A prisoner of about forty years committed suicide Thursday in his cell of the prison of Riom, one learned Monday with the interregional direction of the penitentiary services (DISP) of Lyon, confirming an information of Progress .
The man was discovered Thursday at the beginning of evening during a round by supervisors who gave him the first aid, in vain, and alerted the fire department, according to the same source, stating that the forty-year-old was locked since April 14. According to Le Progrès he was imprisoned for killing, on the night of April 11 to 12 in Dunières, Haute-Loire, his wife several stab wounds. The couple, who had four children between the ages of 8 and 20, present at the time, was in the process of being divorced.
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