Six guards from the Réau prison (Seine-et-Marne) were placed in police custody on Tuesday, March 14, and will be presented to an investigating judge on Thursday for having participated in various trafficking, including narcotics, announced the prosecutor of Melun. They are accused of having “participated in the introduction into custody of prohibited objects or substances, in particular mobile phones, bottles of alcohol and narcotics” in the southern Ile-de-France penitentiary center, Jean-Michel detailed in his press release. Bourlès.
These monitors are suspected of having started their trafficking in October 2022, Mr. Bourlès told Agence France-Presse. A judicial investigation was opened on Thursday for drug trafficking, illicit delivery of items in custody, money laundering and corruption and criminal association.
The accused will be presented during the day to an investigating judge with a view to their indictment, according to the prosecutor. The prosecution also requested their placement in pre-trial detention. The investigation, entrusted to the Melun-Val de Seine police station, began after a report from the prison services.
“The prison population is very demanding or encouraging, and therefore there is a concern about the relationship with money and the relationship between staff and inmates,” a prison official recently told AFP under cover of the anonymity.
