A detainee, with his face masked, brandishes an iron bar. Others play soccer in the hallways on the first floor and film themselves, laughing and raising their arms in victory, in front of the open cell doors. In Mayotte, the riot at the Majicavo-Koropa prison, marked by the attack on one guard and the taking of a second hostage, lasted only a few hours before the intervention of the local section of the intervention group of the National Gendarmerie , on Saturday in September. 28. But the images filmed inside by the young rioters are surprising.
These videos were widely disseminated on the island, where last January groups set up barricades to denounce daily insecurity. A subscriber to the social network. “Mayotte [qui] sinks even further into extreme violence”. As a result of this violence, Mahorais prison officers refused to take up their duties on Sunday, September 29 and Monday, September 30. They demand that the ringleaders, once identified during the investigation, be transferred to mainland France.
This riot affected one of the most overcrowded establishments in France. The prison administration specifies that “compliance rate” On September 26, 191.5% were in the pretrial detention center area and 286.8% were in the detention center. In Majicavo, four detainees, or even five, are crammed into 13.4 square meter cells designed for two. More than half of them are forced to sleep on mattresses placed on the floor, as noted last May the world entering the prison within the framework of the right of visitation exercised by the senator from Saint-Barthélemy, Micheline Jacques (Les Républicains, LR).
One hundred more prisoners per year
“This establishment, inaugurated in 2014, was insufficient and aged prematurely due to prison overcrowding.laments Vincent Pardoux, regional secretary of FO Justice for Réunion and Mayotte. The detention conditions are unreal. For several weeks, detainees had been complaining about problems with water, electricity and sewage. »
Every year, due to the high number of cases of armed violence, the prison population increases by an average of one hundred inmates. With the consequence of “embolization of all establishment services”stated, last May, the director of the establishment, Nicolas Jauniaux, which generates problems of access to the sports fields, the medical service, the school sector and difficulties in responding to the requests of prisoners who want to work within the establishment .
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