The prosecution has opened an investigation following the suicide by hanging of an inmate of the prison of Rouen, was learned Monday from concordant sources. "An investigation into the causes of death was opened following the death of an inmate on 25 August," said Pascal Prache, public prosecutor in Rouen.
"The detainee committed suicide (Sunday) afternoon at the arrest house in Rouen, he hanged himself at the bars of his cell," said Guillaume Colas, Secretary FO Prison at Bonne Nouvelle prison from Rouen. According to the daily Paris Normandie, the prisoner, born in 1979, would have "hanged himself at the bars of his window with a belt".