The victim seems to have had an accident while sending a package to the inmates of the prison adjoining the school.
Sunday April 24, a man was found dead in the precincts of a nursery school in Béthune, in Pas-de-Calais. The victim fell from the roof while trying to send a package to the nearby prison, reports a police source to the Figaroconfirming information from The voice of the North .
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Sunday morning, the members of a neighborhood dance association must meet at 10:30 a.m. at the Louis Pasteur nursery school to rehearse together. But upon his arrival, one of the dancers discovers the body of a man, his face particularly damaged, in an outside corridor, according to France Bleu. Help arrives quickly on the spot. In vain, the man died. According to our information, he was 23 years old. An autopsy must be carried out at the beginning of the week to know the exact causes of death.
“Missiles” launched at detainees
Contacted by Le Figaroa police source explains to us that this accident is the result of a frequent phenomenon for city center prisons: that of “missilesent to inmates. Individuals throw parcels with drugs, cigarettes, cell phones at the prisoners… In short, “anything that is not legal by the parlors“Summarizes our police source. In this case, the kindergarten adjoins the Béthune remand center. Local police report a problemrecurrent», whereas no net surrounds the prison.
The video surveillance system on the roofs of the nursery school was also reinforced in 2020 by the town hall, indicates to France Bleu its councilor, Olivier Gacquerre. The latter refused to respond to our numerous requests, as did the Béthune public prosecutor’s office, in charge of the case. The case seems to cause some unease within the authorities. For good reason, the closure of the Béthune remand center, in service since 1895 and particularly dilapidated, was announced in 2011, by the Minister of Justice at the time, Michel Mercier. Since then, the transfer of prisoners to other prison establishments has been repeatedly postponed.