Six people, who do not present “terrorist or disturbing profile“, escaped in the night from Saturday to Sunday from the administrative detention center of Nîmes (Gard) after the voluntary outbreak of fires within it, according to the parquet floor of Nîmes on Sunday. “Six people are wanted for taking advantage of the confusion generated by the fire to escape“, more “none are on file for terrorist or disturbing profile“Said the prosecutor of the Republic of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac. These fires were started voluntarily by people held in this center for immigrants in an irregular situation following a power failure, she said.
Saturday around 10:00 p.m.,a power cut (occurred) at the administrative detention center in Nîmes» et «for a reason that will have to be determined, the generator (did not take over), plunging the CRA for very long hours in the dark“, detailed Sunday in a press release the Alliance police union (affiliated to the CFE) of Gard. “Quickly, the detainees present (took advantage) to light fires in three living areas around 10:15 p.m.“, continues this text, specifying that eleven people, “poisoned by inhaled fumes“, had to be evacuated to the hospital center of Nîmes. “All people hospitalized for inconvenience (Sic.) returned to the ARC this morning“, noted the prosecutor of Nîmes on Sunday. “Ongoing criminal investigations aim to identify the perpetrators of the damage by fire and to find the people who were in a situation of illegally staying foreigners for whom the administrative authority was carrying out procedures intended to return them to their country of origin.“, she completed.
Part of the center “out of service”
According to Alliance,two living areas“of the detention center”are completely out of order“. The union, which denounces “insufficient numbers of police to intervene safely“, request “the total closure of the burned areas, a complete safety audit and an improvement in working conditionsfrom his colleges at the CRA in Nîmes.
In mid-June, the Comptroller General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty (CGLPL), Dominique Simonnot, had deplored that several detention centers for immigrants in an irregular situation remain structurally “attacks on dignity“human, despite repeated warnings but”left unaddressed“. In early July, a report from the president of Marseilles pointed to numerous malfunctions at the administrative detention center in France’s second city, in which two successive fires broke out at the end of June and mid-July.
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