“Sacha should never have died, ever”.

A year ago, Loriane Ait Hammou lost her son.

Aged 18, Sacha killed himself on April 27 in the cell of the disciplinary section of the Saint-Brieuc remand center (Côtes d'Armor).

Death "in the mitard" as they say in the prison world.

This Sunday, the young boy's family is organizing a silent white march at 1:45 p.m. from the prefecture of Saint-Brieuc.

Without a response from the prison administration, the parents of the young man took legal action, but their complaint was dismissed.

The Saint-Brieuc prosecution then considers that “the offense is insufficiently characterized” evoking “that no criminal breach has been attributed to the penal establishment” at the end of the investigation.

Six months in prison for theft

Tried in immediate appearance in January 2021, Sacha had been sentenced to six months in prison for "acts of theft" committed alone and without violence.

Confronted for the first time in adult prison after a brief stay in an establishment for minors, the young detainee was to be released at the end of July, according to the family lawyer, Me Etienne Noël, from the Rouen bar.

The lawyer is preparing to file "in the next few days" a complaint against X, with civil action.

"In particular, it had been requested that he be placed under special surveillance and that was not implemented," argues the lawyer, a long-standing defender of detainees.

Before taking action with a border of coverage and a lace, a few days after a first suicide attempt, the young man had sent a letter to the head of the remand center, "Begging" him to split the sentence of 21 days of "disciplinary quarter".

“I am at the end of the line, on the edge of the abyss, and on the verge of suicide (…) I am fragile in spirit, and, there, it is too much for me”, he wrote in his letter.

It is a situation of "non-assistance to anyone in danger", accuse the parents.

His parents are fighting today for the placement in disciplinary quarters to be better supervised.

“The suicide rate in QD is seven times higher than in normal detention”, recalls the International Observatory of Prisons, knowing that “the average suicide rate in detention is itself six times higher than in the general population. ".

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