Leak from the Metz detention center: a person arrested in Luxembourg


Europe 1 with AFP

One of the twelve illegal immigrants who fled on Wednesday evening from the administrative detention center (CRA) in Metz-Queuleu, was arrested on Friday in Luxembourg and placed in police custody. He will be judged this Monday in an immediate appearance at the Metz criminal court.

One of the twelve immigrants in an irregular situation who had fled Wednesday evening from the administrative detention center (CRA) in Metz-Queuleu, was arrested on Friday in Luxembourg and placed in police custody, we learned from the public prosecutor’s office on Saturday. from Metz. He will be tried on Monday in an immediate appearance at the Metz criminal court, said the deputy public prosecutor, Christel Haquet.

After the escape, an investigation had been opened for “subtraction from placement and maintenance in administrative detention” and “degradations”, and entrusted to the Border Police, the prosecution had announced. Of the 12 fugitives, of Algerian, Moroccan and Libyan nationalities, only one had been taken back, as of Wednesday evening by the police, and placed “under observation” in the hospital, had specified the deputy public prosecutor, Thomas Bernard.

917 people selected

Located right next to the prison, the Metz-Queuleu administrative detention center has a capacity of 98 people. Foreigners placed in CRAs are in an irregular situation and are awaiting deportation there. They can stay there for up to 90 days.

In 2021, 917 people were detained there, according to the annual report on CRAs published by several associations for the defense of refugees, including Cimade and France Terre d’Asile.



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