A woman in pre-trial detention for terrorist offenses was caught in the prison of Fresnes (Val-de-Marne) while she was trying to escape, the Ministry of Justice said on Sunday, confirming information from the Parisian. According to the daily, the young woman aged 31 would have managed to escape from her cell via “a hole” that she would have made in the wall and would have been caught “on the rampart” of the prison.
“The prison administration confirms that this morning it thwarted an escape attempt in Fresnes,” said the Ministry of Justice. “It was immediately made to carry out a check of all the cells of the district women to make sure that it was indeed an isolated attempt”, added this source. “An investigation is underway,” entrusted to the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office, it was added. “The girl didn’t go far, she just got out of her cell actually. The prison has done its job, ”said a source familiar with the matter.
According to this source, “this detainee is not the most dangerous. She was not connected with terrorist companies. Even if it was in the theater of operations abroad ”. According to Point and The Parisian, this is Douha M., a “ghost” from Syria, indicted in December 2017 for having joined the ranks of the Islamic State group. The Chancellery underlined that “4.5 million euros of the 2022 budget are precisely planned for the complete security of the area of Fresnes. This is the biggest operation in the 100 million euros security plan voted for next year ”.