The twenty-eight-year-old prisoner took advantage of an authorized outing at the museum to escape. It is always actively sought. The prosecution had opposed its participation in the exit.
An outing to the museum and an escaped prisoner. Wednesday, January 29, an inmate from the Villepinte prison (Seine-Saint-Denis), escaped during an outing organized at the Museum of Man, in Paris, Place du Trocadéro. According to the Bobigny prosecution, he is a twenty-eight-year-old man, sentenced for violence.
The man had been authorized to participate in this outing, despite the reluctance of the prosecution. These outings organized in cultural places are done within the framework of the Justice-Culture Protocol, signed in 2022. This inter-ministerial protocol was created in 1986, “under the leadership of Robert Badinter, then Minister of Justice, and Jack Lang , Minister of Culture “, according to the Ministry of Justice. “Art and culture” are among the compulsory activities in detention, according to the penitentiary code, “in the same way as work, sport or vocational training”.
The detainee still wanted
According to the FO Justice union of the Villepinte prison, six detainees participated in this exit to the museum. They were supervised by five penitentiary insertion and probation advisers (CPIP) and a penitentiary supervisor. It was this one who launched himself in pursuit of the flight inmate, but without managing to catch him. He escaped at the Gare du Nord, not at the museum. The detainee is still on the run and actively sought.