Illustrative photo of the La Talaudière (Loire) penitentiary center. – KONRAD K./SIPA
- An inmate is accused of throwing bleach in the face of a female warden, then punching her in the face, before sticking his fingers in her eyes and trying to punch her in the face. bite the neck.
- On April 3, several dozen detainees refused to leave the promenade yard and return to their cells.
- They demanded in particular “more game consoles, the removal of Plexiglas in the visiting room and more food in the canteen”.
“The inmate threw bleach in her face, then punched her in the face, then stuck his fingers in her eyes and tried to bite her neck, just as he bit a of our colleagues at a calf. According to Jean-Luc Perrot, representing Ufap-Unsa of the Talaudière (Loire) penitentiary center, the aggression suffered Tuesday morning by a supervisor of this prison near Saint-Etienne was particularly violent.
The 30-year-old detainee was taken into police custody. The victim, aged 53, “was taken to the CHU from which she has just left to be heard by the police service in charge of the investigation ordered by the Saint-Etienne prosecutor’s office, then by the medical service legal which will establish the duration of his total interruption of work (ITT) ”, indicates Stéphane Scotto, the interregional director of the penitentiary services of Lyon, who went there.
“The morning team refused to take their duty” Tuesday at La Talaudière
Other guards who came to rescue their attacked colleague were, according to him, likely to have been slightly injured during their intervention. On April 3, several dozen detainees refused to leave the promenade yard and return to their cells. They demanded in particular “more game consoles, the elimination of Plexiglas in the visiting room and more food in the canteen”, specifies Jean-Luc Perrot.
“In this context of tension, the morning team refused to take up duty,” added the union representative, stressing that two sections of the regional intervention and security team (Eris) were sent as reinforcements. According to him, the prison administration has agreed to transfer soon to other prisons several detainees whose behavior is problematic, as it has already done in recent days after the rebellion of April 3.