An inmate known for “significant psychiatric disorders” and equipped with a homemade pick held five people hostage for several times this Friday at Arles prison (Bouches-du-Rhône), before surrendering shortly before 4 p.m. hours.
The 37-year-old man held five hostages, four nursing staff and a supervisor. The hostage-taking began at 11:10 a.m. Around 3 p.m., a first hostage, a doctor, was released. The inmate was incarcerated for rape at gunpoint and had expressed his desire to be changed prison, said a source close to the case.
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“Not a terrorist profile”
Released in 2031, he presents “a psychological profile, not a terrorist profile or anything else”, specified the prison administration, stressing that the regional intervention and security teams (Eris) are on site, as well as the teams local prison security (ELSP).
The Raid intervention forces were activated by the police prefect. “We have mobilized all means” to put an end to the hostage-taking, indicated on X the Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin, who came on Thursday to travel to the Bouches-du-Rhône department. Gérald Darmanin indicated that he was following “the evolution of the situation in real time”.
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The Arles central prison, a prison created in 1991, is reserved for prisoners sentenced to sentences of more than 10 years of criminal imprisonment or presenting security risks. It was in this establishment that Corsican independence activist Yvan Colonna was detained, and it was there that he was fatally attacked by a fellow inmate in 2022.
This prison, closed for six years, between 2003 and 2009, after being flooded during a flood of the Rhône, had also welcomed an inmate like Jean-Marc Rouillan, member of the far-left armed group Direct Action, of which he had was one of the co-founders.
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