This Saturday, one of the supervisors who intervened agreed to testify anonymously on RTL. According to him, the detainee, sentenced to 18 years of criminal imprisonment in 2020, “for acts of rape at gunpoint”, had in his possession “artisanal type weapons made with iron” which he could be made in a cell.
The agent says that “when the alarm went off”, to signal the hostage-taking, “we positioned ourselves to secure the area. We have the means offered to us by the prison administration, namely a CRS type outfit, a helmet and a shield.”
He wanted to change establishment
It was while he was going around 10:45 a.m. to the complex addiction care unit (UCSA) of the prison, “as part of follow-up care”, that the man threatened four members of the medical staff and a supervisor, “with a homemade punch-type weapon”, before “sequestering” them in an area of the care unit by “locking a barred door” and “impeding it by means of a medical bed,” said the Tarascon public prosecutor, Laurent Gumbau, on Friday.
The prison guard and all the mobilized agents were able to observe the madman “through the glass” but also thanks to the cameras equipped in the infirmary. “He had barricaded himself and was preparing for a possible attack,” the supervisor assures our colleagues. According to the latter, the detainee “complained a lot about his conditions of detention” and “accused the staff and the administration as a whole but also the State. Everyone was angry with him and persecuted him. »
The detainee seemed to have the “motive” to change establishment, but “there was no precise, written request, as detainees can make to the prison administration”, underlined for his part the prosecutor of Tarascon.
