A particularly worrying weekend in Perpignan prison, where several riots took place. The Ufap Unsa Justice union continues to denounce overcrowding in prisons at record levels.
One of the most overcrowded prisons in France, the Perpignan prison has seen an increase in violence and various incidents for several months. This weekend, the tension has risen even further as a result of prison overcrowding, which has become unsustainable, claims Pierre Grousset, local secretary of the Ufap Unsa Justice union.
Within two days, four prisoners were placed in specially secured detention rooms because they had refused to re-enter their cells. In the process, they hurled insults and death threats at a female guard in the MAF (Maison d’arrêt des Femmes) area.
A few hours later, a second brawl broke out in the visitors’ waiting room. The result: a laceration to the mouth and a concussion. One prisoner had to be evacuated to hospital. He claimed to have been beaten up by another inmate who accused him of not observing Ramadan. “This is a daily reality. Some people don’t eat pork any more because they are put under pressure,” Pierre Grousset stresses. (…) Actu.fr