In an interview published by “Le Parisien”, the new Minister of Justice detailed his first projects for the prison system in France.
Published on 29/12/2024 08:03
Updated on 29/12/2024 08:10
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Small prisons for petty criminals. This is the idea that the new Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, mentioned in an interview with the newspaper The Parisian published Saturday December 28. He thus hears “to imprison people sentenced to short, or even very short, sentences in prisons with a maximum of a few dozen places for a stay of a few months, weeks, or even days”. These new prisons “would be easier to build and more acceptable to local elected officials”he believes.
To carry out his missions, within a government with a precarious balance, Gérald Darmanin intends “(fight) at the budget level” for Justice. “It would make no sense to appoint a Minister of Justice as Minister of State, to put him so high in the protocol order [au troisième rang]to make me return to the government, to ultimately not give me the means to carry out my action so expected by the French”he assured.
Gérald Darmanin also said he was in favor of reinforced isolation in detention “of the 100 biggest drug traffickers” detained in France, “I asked the prison administration to give me a list of the 100 biggest imprisoned drug traffickers, those likely to have contacts outside to continue their criminal activities and we will put them in solitary confinement, as is the case. made for terrorists”he developed.
Appointed Monday within the government of François Bayrou, the new Minister of Justice identified “three walls in front of us, very worrying for the nation”, namely: organized crime and drug banditry, prison overcrowding and trial hearing delays. Concerning the incarcerated drug traffickers, he clarified that the desired isolation will not be “classic”more “inspired by the model applied to the biggest terrorists we have arrested”arguing that“none of them can order jihadist attacks” from their cells.
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