A 30-year-old detainee charged with "rape, habitual violence and murder" managed to leave Grasse prison in the Alpes-Maritimes by accompanying visitors to the parlor on Saturday morning, he said. AFP from concordant sources, confirming a Nice-Morning news.
Human error or flaw in the device?
"At the end of the third and last round of the morning parlor, the inmate has succeeded, we still do not know what subterfuge, to mix with families and out of prison," says a union source. "At the moment he was already outside, on the road, he was spotted by an agent, he then ran to escape but he was finally caught by our colleague," said the source.
"There are two circuits in the visiting rooms, one for the visitors and one for the detainees, with meetings in individual booths.It is theoretically impossible for a detainee to find himself in the family circuit. did not work, there is either a human error, or a flaw in the device ", still considers this union source.
Prosecutor's office opens an investigation
The prosecutor's office of Grasse opened an investigation, entrusted to the local police station, of the chief of escape. "Investigations will be conducted, including whether the detainee had prepared his coup," said Fabienne Atzori, prosecutor in Grasse, who is waiting for the first hearings of the guards and the report of the Prison Service .
The detainee was placed under a detention warrant last October following the complaint of a young woman at the police station in Cannes, reporting the fact of prostitution under duress. The police had made the connection with the disappearance of another young woman, whose body was not found and which was a relationship of mis en cause. In 2007, another inmate, Pascal Payet, a figure of organized crime, managed to escape by helicopter from this prison opened on the heights of Grasse in 1992. His run had lasted two months.