A mutiny occurred in Majicavo, the only detention center in Mayotte, on September 28, 2024. Several inmates from the prison will be transferred to other penitentiary establishments across France. 27 of them will take charge of prisons in Reunion, reports Meeting the 1st .
According to L’Info.re seven prisoners will be incarcerated at Domenjod and 20 others at the Port. The first detainees were transferred this Monday, confirmed the director of the Domenjod center, Julie Latou, with Meeting the 1st. But these changes are not to everyone’s taste, like the deputy Jean-Hugues Ratenon who thinks that they will remain on the island at the end of their sentence, which will generate more delinquency, according to him.
“Prisoners who did not participate in the mutiny”
More “according to the administration, these are prisoners who did not participate in the mutiny and who were supposed to come to Reunion”explains Vincent Pardoux regional secretary FO prison union Réunion-Mayotte. These movements would mainly aim to reduce tensions and relieve congestion in Majicavo, which has 650 prisoners for 278 theoretical places.
As our colleagues point out, last week’s riots were notably marked by a hostage-taking and the violent attack on a guard. The GIGN had also intervened to restore order in the Mahoran prison, indicates L’info.re. Its director, Nicolas Jauniaux, also resigned against all expectations, to denounce the prison overcrowding and the unsanitary conditions of the establishment.
