“We go up a notch”. For Jérémy Jeanniot, interregional delegate for FOI in Justice, the facts committed in Liancourt give little room to doubt. The accommodation of two agents of Liancourt prison was the subject of a fire start, on the night of Monday 5 to Tuesday, May 6. The fire attacked the facade of the home, without however provoked more structural damage. There were no injuries.
The union representative does not hesitate to speak of “criminal act”. An element can go in this direction. “A strong smell of essence has been felt on this facade,” said the Beauvais prosecutor’s office. The Public Prosecutor Frédéric Trinh opened a judicial information for “degradation of a property by a dangerous means for the persons committed due to the quality of persons possession of the public authority.” The investigation was entrusted to the research brigade of the Clermont gendarmerie company.
A DDPF attack?
“We found fuel cans not far,” adds Jérémy Jeanniot. “Now we will wait for the result of the investigation.” More particularly if this fire has a link with the series of attacks which occurred in France and in the Oise at the end of April.
Several concerted actions, gathered under the acronym DDPF (defense of French prisoners) targeted civil servants of the penitentiary throughout France. In the department, an agent had found his degraded car with the famous acronym. Subsequently, several arrests took place in connection with these intimidation. “We hoped to get out of this episode,” comments Jérémy Jeanniot.
They deposited the keys
After this start of fire, the agents stationed in Liancourt once again expressed their concern this Tuesday, May 6. “They have deposited the keys,” says FO representative. This means that they did not take their posts in time. “But they made the minimum of the minimum with a single walk,” says Jérémy Jeanniot.
They finally resumed work in the afternoon. A similar action is to take place on Wednesday 7. But there should not be a more demanding movement in front of the Liancourt detention center. FO and the CGT do not agree on this point.
“It overflows on our private lives”
“The colleagues remain on the alert,” continues the union representative. “In Liancourt, there are regular assaults. But if necessary, we have “the habit” to manage this type of situation. But now it overflows on our private lives. We park in mind what happened in Lyon. A group had burned a vehicle and fired on a house. ” The worst: the authors of these facts, believing that they were attacking penitentiaries, had attacked … their neighbors.
And to admit that agents are starting to take charge of their own personal security. In particular by installing surveillance cameras in their accommodation.
