In September 2016, Bilal Taghi, a radicalized detainee, violently assaulted two of his supervisors from Osny Prison. This first case of prison terrorism in France forced the prison administration to thoroughly review its management of radicalization. But victims' lawyers are calling for more ways to ensure the protection of staff.

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The trial of the first terrorist attack in a prison in France opens Tuesday morning in Paris. On 4 September 2016, around 3 pm, detainee Bilal Taghi came out of his cell from the Osny prison to go for a walk. In his sleeve, he conceals an artisanal punch, with which he attacks carotid Philippe several times, a 51-year-old supervisor, who owes his life only to the intervention of one of his colleagues, who was also wounded. in the attack. He tells the scene at the microphone of Europe 1.

"It was very fast, after the fact, the pains were very difficult to bear," Philippe tells Europe 1. "I was completely collapsed, we try to empty ourselves, to get rid of all that, to forget. We deny the evidence, we deny the fact that we are suffering and what has happened to us, we do not understand why this act was committed ", continues the supervisor. "My desire, for the future, is to go forward, to become again the man I have been, despite this story that sticks to my skin.I am a broken man today, who tries to get back up. "

For Master Marion Ménage, who defends the other supervisor assaulted in the attack, this trial will "humanize victims, who are not only supervisors, but also men and individuals." More broadly, for master Pascal Winter, who defends Philippe and the UFAP supervisory union, this trial will pose the debate "the resources allocated to manage dangerous prisoners by combining a maximum security of staff and the need to rub elbows with the nearest" , while more than 1,200 common law prisoners have been identified as "radicalized", in addition to the 500 people incarcerated for Islamist terrorism.

Evaluating the dangerousness of radicalized prisoners

However, this aggression has already created an electroshock within the penitentiary, especially since the unit in which Bilal Taghi was incarcerated was one of the first experiments of these neighborhoods dedicated to violent radical Islamists that the administration tries to "radicalize". After the controversy over the manifest error of appreciation of the dangerousness of this prisoner, practices on the management of radicalization have been reviewed. From now on, the prisoners spend first several months in QER (neighborhoods of evaluation of the radicalization, there are seven of them in France) before being directed towards various forms of taking charge, which go from the isolation to the specific neighborhood investments.

As for the profile of Bilal Taghi, he still asks many questions: he was at the time incarcerated for an aborted attempt to leave in Syria and during the training, he did not express regret or remorse. He had claimed his gesture to "carry out his jihad in France, attacking a representative of the French state". He also hinted that if he had no other plans for attacks.