Wanted. On Saturday, searches were underway to find nine men who escaped on Friday evening from the administrative detention center (CRA) installed on the premises of a police school in Oissel (Seine-Maritime), we were told. learned Saturday from a police source.
“The nine detainees escaped around 10:00 p.m. by breaking a wall,” said this police source, confirming information from the 76 Actu site. As soon as the alert was triggered, searches were launched, added this source, adding that the device was lifted overnight after the escapees could not be found.
Investigation for escape
Friday evening, police officers from the Rouen police station came as reinforcements for the search. These resumed on Saturday morning and an escape investigation was opened. According to the police source, the wanted detainees are of Algerian and Tunisian nationalities.
The escape would have occurred in the premises of the CRA, belonging to the police academy, installed on the site, where police students had remained on site for the weekend. The prefect of Seine-Maritime Pierre-André Durand and the zone director of the border police went on site.
“Difficult” searches
Saturday afternoon, the police source spoke of “difficult” research due to the situation of the CRA, on the edge of the forest, according to a police source. A volunteer from the CRA Oissel visitor network and citizen observatory confirmed the escape of nine people without having more information at this stage.
Considered to be dilapidated, the Rouen-Oissel CRA was the subject in 2018 of a report by Cimade, which works with foreigners. In this document, the association confirmed the obsolescence of the Oissel CRA.