He is a co-detainee who has found the lifeless body of the young man. He had arrived in the center a few days earlier.

A Romanian of about twenty years died Monday night at the detention center (CRA) of Vincennes, where he had been placed, AFP learned Tuesday close source of the investigation.

No reported violence

"He had arrived Saturday, there is no reported violence, neither with the guards, nor with co-detainees," said the source. It was one of them, who shared his room, who gave the alert after finding the inanimate victim in his bed. His death was recorded at 19 hours by Samu.

According to the testimony of the co-detainee, the young man "did not sleep for two days and took drugs", which were seized on the spot, told AFP the police prefecture. "The man had seen a doctor before joining the CRA and no health incompatibility with the retention had been found," added the PP.

A search for the causes of death was opened and entrusted to the police station of the 12th district of Paris, on which the center depends.

Some 220 people were detained at the CRA de Vincennes with a capacity of 239 places according to the Assfam (Association social service family migrants), present in this center where are placed migrants who are subject to an expulsion procedure.