Louis de Raguenel with Europe 1 and AFP 5:20 pm, October 26, 2021
The breakdown of the Thales company's device affected around half of the active equipment in France, according to a source.
The Minister of Justice asked the director of the penitentiary administration to meet with those in charge of the system to prevent such an incident from happening again.
The control system for people placed under electronic bracelets in the Paris region, managed by the Thales group, was interrupted on Monday for more than five hours, Europe 1 and AFP learned on Tuesday from the prison administration.
The Thales company "informed the prison administration of the interruption of its service for five hours and twenty minutes yesterday (Monday), from 4.30 p.m. to 9.50 p.m.", explained this source, confirming information from BFMTV.
14,500 electronic bracelets in France
According to the prison administration, no incident resulting from this interruption of service, observed on half of the 14,500 bracelets in France, has been reported.
The Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti asked the director of the prison administration to meet with those in charge of the system within Thales so that they "provide all the necessary clarifications and specify the arrangements made so that such an incident does not occur. reproduce more ", we added from the same source.