Four detainees from the central house of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (Charente-Maritime) were injured on Tuesday August 23, including one seriously, during a “series of fights» which ended in «general brawl“In the courtyard of the establishment, we learned Wednesday, August 24 from the parquet floor of La Rochelle.
Two inmates,pricked by a sharp object“, maybe “a homemade knife or pick“, were hospitalized in La Rochelle. One of them, hit in the abdomen, was evacuated in absolute urgency but his vital prognosis is not engaged, according to the prosecution.
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The other two injured were taken care of in the infirmary of the penitentiary establishment. One was hit in the head by a pétanque ball and the other received a blow to the head. The sharp object was not found after the brawl, according to the prosecution, which opened an investigation for “intentional violence with weaponsentrusted to the research brigade of La Rochelle and the gendarmerie of Saint-Martin-de-Ré.
The investigation should in particular seek to understand the reason for the brawls, which took place around 5:00 p.m. The detainees then refused to return to their cells but were all able to be reinstated around 9:00 p.m., according to the prosecution.