Blockage at the Nîmes remand center after the murder of two prison officers in Eure.

Les surveillants pénitentiaires bloquent la maison d’arrêt de Nîmes PHOTO D.R.

Les transferts de détenus sont bloqués par un mouvement de surveillants à la maison d’arrêt de Nîmes après l’attaque mortelle d’un fourgon cellulaire hier dans l’Eure.

A blockade at the Nîmes remand center is currently underway and is preventing the transfer of detainees to the region's courts and in particular the Nîmes courthouse. The movement of prison guards' unions is part of the murder of two prison officers which occurred yesterday in Eure during an attack on a prison van by criminals to escape a detained. In Nîmes, the supervisors' inter-union deplores the lack of material resources and an insufficiency of human resources. The magistrates' unions have given their support to the profession of supervisors and the conference of public prosecutors. This Wednesday morning, one of the representatives of the Ufap union demanded additional staff for the transfers of certain detainees. He indicated that security conditions were sometimes not met when only two prison officers escorted a detainee. He also called for a strengthening of security equipment (weapons and bulletproof vests) and vehicles. "Some should be armored,” he notes in the event of transfers of dangerous detainees. The union representative also asked for an increase in videoconferences to reduce or secure certain hearings and avoid extractions from remand centers to the courts.