Illustration of a penitentiary center. - KONRAD K./SIPA

She stayed there all night. A pregnant woman who came to visit a detainee was "forgotten" in a visiting room at the Liancourt prison center, in the Oise, on the night of Sunday to Monday, we learned on Tuesday from the interregional directorate the Lille Prison Service (Disp).

"It is a huge neglect"

This woman was “forgotten when the visiting rooms closed after 5 pm. It was only discovered at the reopening between 9h and 9.15am, "the Disp told AFP.

"It is a regrettable accident, it is a huge negligence, an administrative investigation was opened" to "understand what may have happened" because "it is completely abnormal", added this source, adding that this woman had been escorted to her home Monday morning by prison staff.

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