A sensitive matter. A prison officer at Baumettes prison is accused of rape according to information from BFM Marseille confirmed by the prosecution. He was referred following his police custody on Friday, indicted for two of the facts for which he is accused and placed under judicial supervision on a third, we learned.
The prosecutor, who did not wish to communicate further on the subject, simply specifies that the person implicated had also been placed “under the status of assisted witness for another part of these same facts” of rape.
According to BFM Marseille, the supervisor of Beaumettes – a prison center which has a women’s section with around a hundred places – is the subject of a complaint from a 41-year-old prisoner, who accuses him of having raped her on several occasions. The daily Provence specifies that the facts denounced “would have taken place between last summer and the month of March”. An investigation was opened and entrusted to the departmental security of Bouches-du-Rhône.
According to a source close to the case, the detainee, imprisoned for a matter related to the custody of her child, would have already brought such accusations in another establishment against the staff of the penitentiary administration.
A supervisor “recognized by his peers”
The suspect is a man in his thirties, who has worked for ten years in prison. “He is recognized by his peers and has an unblemished professional record. He has never been noticed and he is respected by his superiors. He is not known for complaints from detainees, his career is perfect”, described to the Parisian Me Béatrice Zavarro, his lawyer, who adds that his client “fallen from above”.
“The wording of the offense seems very serious but before drawing hasty conclusions, we must let the investigating judge act, estive Me Béatrice Zavarro. I have high hopes for the rest of the events and the rest of the procedure. »