They don't want a prison facing their homes. The residents and the mayor of Magnanville, in Yvelines, are mobilizing against this project to build a prison near a residential area and a high school. Faced with prison overcrowding, President Emmanuel Macron had promised the creation of 15,000 new prison places by 2027. We are a long way from that, especially since suitable sites must be found. In Magnanville, near Paris, residents do not want barbed wire or these gray walls near their houses.
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“I open the shutters, I'm in front of a prison. There's a problem, it's not possible.” For fifteen years, this resident of Magnanville has seen corn fields. But by 2028 it could face a prison wall. A situation that she fears for herself and her family. “Today, I have two children who go to their establishment alone, which is why we chose this place to live. And tomorrow, with a penitentiary center, it will no longer be a problem. the whole case”, she laments at the microphone of Europe 1.
Seeing her daily life turned upside down is also the fear of Catherine who grew up in Magnanville. “The police will be on duty, there will also be everything that involves the delivery of illicit products, everything that will generate around it as a population movement. Once again, right next to a school,” denounces She. The mayor of Magnanville also points out many disadvantages. There is the disappearance of 20 hectares of agricultural land and the risk of flooding in the communities below. But not only that, the elected official is also worried about such a project for his constituents.
“Saying that, there is a visual nuisance. A remand center is lit 24 hours a day with floodlights. That's why I asked for a meeting with the new Minister of Justice Didier Migaud. We don't “It's not against it, it's not the 'not at home' syndrome, it's that at a given moment, we want our proposal to be taken into account”, insists the mayor of the town. A total of 23 alternative proposals were made to the government. But for now, all have been swept aside.
