An inmate was found dead on Friday at Besançon prison, apparently by hanging, we learned from the prosecutor’s office on Saturday, a few days after the death of two other inmates in the same establishment by overdose.
An investigation, to discover the causes of death, opened
The detainee, aged 37, was found in his cell on Friday morning, the Besançon prosecutor’s office told AFP, confirming information from France 3. He was sentenced in December in immediate appearance to 10 months in prison. for having threatened firefighters who were helping him with a knife while he was clearly drunk. An investigation into the causes of death has been opened, an autopsy must be carried out in the coming days.
“It was a well-identified psychiatric situation, he had been taken out some time ago to see a psychiatrist, and we had even changed his neighborhood so that he could be monitored more, but unfortunately, we cannot control everything “, regretted to AFP Christophe Vernerey, Ufap-Unsa delegate at the remand center. This death comes after two fellow prisoners, aged 34 and 36, had already been found dead in their cell on December 29, victims of a fatal cocktail of medication and drugs.
“There, it was a drug problem, and there would be a lot to say,” continued Christophe Vernerey. “We suffer: the prisons are not watertight in France, and we put traffickers in the same establishments with consumers, trafficking is accentuated. There are packages that are parachuted from outside, there are three guards for 150 prisoners, it’s complicated to manage.”