A prisoner killed himself in Fleury-Mérogis prison (Essonne) on Saturday, 10 November. The thirteenth this year in the largest prison in Europe, faced with an unusual wave of suicides.
He hanged himself with his laces. A 47-year-old prisoner killed himself in Fleury-Mérogis prison (Essonne) last Saturday. It is the parquet of Evry which communicated on the information this Tuesday. "He was identified as suicidal and was under special control , " said the prosecution.
Saturday night, after a round, a supervisor indicated that he seemed to "go wrong" . "The guards went to see two minutes later, they found him hanged in his cell. They took him down, but he could not be revived, " said the prosecution, which opened an investigation, as every time an inmate commits suicide. The man had left a letter. He was in the neighborhood of the new arrivals and had been incarcerated for three weeks, pending his trial in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) for acts of willful and outrageous violence.
Three suicides in 2017
This is the thirteenth this year in the largest prison in Europe, facing an unusual wave of suicides. In 2017, three inmates killed themselves in Fleury-Mérogis, which hosts more than 4,000 inmates. A gap that the authorities have difficulty explaining: the number of supervisors is similar compared to last year, as prison overcrowding, less than other prisons in Île-de-France. The buildings are modern and the conditions of detention there are rather better than in other prisons in the region.
The last suicide in Fleury-Mérogis dates back to September. A 33-year-old man, detained for six months and identified as vulnerable, was found hanging from the bars of his cell.