A prison (illustration) – KONRAD K./SIPA
If he had not been on the run, he would have been released in August. Friday, a 37-year-old man was sentenced to four months in prison before the Avignon Criminal Court (Vaucluse) for escaping from the Pontet detention center.
On February 10, this father had not returned to the center, where he had been imprisoned for several months under the regime of semi-liberty, and had thus turned into a fugitive, only six months before his planned release. during the summer.
At the bar, the man, arrested Thursday in Avignon and tried in immediate appearance, confided to having escaped to resolve a problem with a person usurping his identity to commit scams, reports Provence this Sunday. Explanations which were not enough to convince the court which issued a warrant of committal at the end of the judgment.