A guard at the Nancy remand center suspected of having provided services to prisoners for payment was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention this Wednesday.
The man was indicted this Wednesday, June 26. A guard at the Nancy remand center for almost 10 years, several charges have been brought against him. In addition to the “detention, transport and transfer of narcotics”, the 36-year-old prison officer is accused of “illicit delivery of objects to prisoners, particularly mobile phones”, and “passive corruption by a person holding the public authority and money laundering.
According to L’Est Républicain, 4,500 euros in cash were found during a search carried out at the home of the agent in question.
The supervisor as well as two inmates of the Nancy remand center were placed in police custody “last week”, also specified the city’s public prosecutor. At the end, only the agent was presented to justice while the judicial investigation was opened on June 19 against him.
As part of an investigation entrusted to the territorial crime division (DCT) of DIPN 54, the interventions took place on Tuesday, June 18. For the time being, an investigation has been opened in order to identify potential accomplices within the prison.
