Illustrative photo of a penitentiary center, here in 2018 in Fresnes (Val-de-Marne). - Philippe LOPEZ / AFP

An impossible love cost a supervisor at the Roanne (Loire) penitentiary center dear. Accused of having given in March a mobile phone to a prisoner, with whom she is in love, this 41-year-old woman was sentenced Tuesday evening to a definitive ban from exercising this profession.

Until then, she had “very good service in the prison administration, where she had been in office for 17 years,” said the Roanne prosecutor's office on Wednesday, which also sentenced her to “2,000 euros of suspended fine ”.

Denounced by her husband, also a supervisor at the penitentiary center

Suspended from her duties and placed under judicial supervision in March after having provided the detainee with a telephone, she had explained that she wanted to "stay in touch" with him. Besides this device and SIM cards, she had also illegally handed him clothes and food on Christmas and Valentine's Day. The 35-year-old man she is in love with has been sentenced three times by an assize court.

He is currently serving a 14-year criminal sentence for murder. The Roanne Criminal Court imposed a three-month prison sentence on him for concealing the gifts received. The defendant had been denounced by her husband, with whom she is in the process of divorce, and who also happens to be a supervisor in the same prison. Roanne, your ruthless universe ...

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