“I congratulate the ministers who also spoke to recall the importance of a just order, we cannot do everything,” declared the President of the Republic.
Emmanuel Macron gave this Wednesday, August 24 his support to the Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti who “reminded of what to do and what not to do» after the karting event organized in the prison of Fresnes (Val-de-Marne).
“Many of our compatriots may have been shocked by what they saw in our prisons, the Keeper of the Seals was right to recall there also what should be done and what should not be done“, underlined the Head of State in a preamble to the Council of Ministers back to school at the Élysée.
“I was never informed”
“The penalty has a meaning in society, it is not worth excluding everything, it is then intended to allow reintegration“, continued the President of the Republic, calling not to “not feed the troublein an already difficult global context. “There are intangibles, invariants that must be defended and I congratulate the ministers who also spoke to recall the importance of a just order, we cannot do everything“, insisted the head of state.
Eric Dupond-Moretti announced Tuesday evening on Twitter the publication of a circular to fix “the conditions necessary for carrying out reintegration projects in prison“, from now on “subject to express validation by the management of the prison administration“. The Minister of Justice spoke after the publication of an administrative investigation report on the organization – highly contested on social networks since Friday – of fun activities called “Kohlanness“, organized at the end of July in a courtyard of the penitentiary establishment of Fresnes (Val-de-Marne). “If I had known that a karting competition was organized, I would have put a very clear veto (…) I was never informedof this, also declared the Minister of Justice to the press on Tuesday afternoon.
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Three teams – of prisoners, guards and residents of the city – had faced each other in events, karting, mime or even tug of war over a swimming pool. A video of the event broadcast in particular on YouTube on Friday, and since withdrawn, had swelled a very strong controversy, coming in particular from the far right and the right.
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