The Marseille administrative court orders the Ministry of the Interior to provide mattresses to those in police custody. The court also orders the state to renovate and carry out work within three months.
The State will also have to pay a fine of 1,500 euros to the bar association which took him to court and documented the unsanitary conditions in Marseille jails. “ How can we imagine that a person placed in these conditions could correctly answer the questions asked of him afterwards? At this level and during periods of police custody which can still be long, which can last 96 hours, this is inhumane, degrading treatment. I find that we are not very far from torture in reality,” says Valentin Loret of the Human Rights League.