Cockroaches, overcrowding… A year ago, in July 2021, the general controller of places of deprivation of liberty issued a vitriolic report on the conditions of detention at the Seysses remand center.
In October the interim relief judge ordered the implementation of eleven measures to remedy these unworthy conditions.
Their implementation being partial, the Toulouse Bar Association again seized the urgent applications judge so that the prison services apply them and set a timetable.
Cockroaches all over the place, single cells that house three inmates.
The picture is far from idyllic at the Seysses remand center which has more than 1,000 prisoners for an initial capacity of 600 places, south of Toulouse.
It is even alarming according to a report published a year ago by Dominique Simonnot, the general controller of places of deprivation of liberty.
Elements which had prompted the Toulouse bar association to seize the urgent applications judge of the administrative court last September.
On October 4, considering that the living conditions in this prison seriously undermined the fundamental rights of the detainees, he had prescribed eleven urgent measures.
Which have not been carried out, noted the president of Toulouse during a recent visit to the remand center.
Timeline of ordinary indignity in #jail.
1/ In July 2021, the @CGLPL published urgent recommendations after noting the inhumanity of the conditions of detention in Toulouse-Seysses.
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— OIP (@OIP_sectionfr) July 13, 2022
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Set a deadline for carrying out the measures
The Bar Association has therefore decided to go to court again, together with the International Observatory of Prisons (OIP) to obtain the execution of these measures.
“Our only way was to come back to court.
The detainees alerted us, they spoke to their lawyers about it, asked them.
We come back before the judge so that he sets a deadline and if this deadline is not respected, that the prison administration be sentenced to a penalty payment for each day of delay, ”said Julien Brel, lawyer at the bar of Toulouse.
Several of the eleven measures "were still not fully executed, and some had not yet known any start of execution more than seven months after being pronounced", indicated the bar association and the OIP.
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