FO requests a plane from the Minister of Justice

With a record overpopulation of 245%, the difficulties encountered in creating a second establishment and a director who resigned for “alert” Regarding the situation, the Majicavo-Koropa penitentiary center, the only prison on the island, is in crisis.

The mutiny that occurred on September 28 illustrated the tensions reigning there, justifying the emergency sending of reinforcements from Reunion, then the acceleration of the transfer of 25 detainees to Reunion prisons.

A situation “extremely worrying” for the FO prison union, which wrote a letter this Tuesday, November 12 to the attention of the Minister of Justice, Didier Migaud.

Evoking an overpopulation that has reached “paroxysmal levels” and remembering that “the three establishments in Reunion Island have always shown solidarity by welcoming inmates from Mayotte”the union believes that “Today we have reached a situation which no longer allows this.”

And to make a request to the Minister of Justice: “We must favor transfers to the mainland. And rather than organizing these transfers one by one, which is extremely expensive for the State, our organization is asking you to change method by chartering a plane which can transfer a large number of prisoners sentenced to long sentences.”

Inmates who are also “very often the leaders, and who dictate their law in the establishment.” “Their transfer will break down these organized networks and allow us to take control of the establishment”wants to believe the union. Who ends by emphasizing that “never has the situation been so serious in the Indian Ocean establishments”which the staff are “holding at arm’s length” while waiting today “a strong message.”

Watch the intervention of Emmanuel Baudin, general secretary of FO Pénitentiaire on the Réunion La 1ère news:

Prison Majicavo : ITV Emmanuel Baudin