Agents from the Béziers penitentiary center (Hérault) discovered on Monday the lifeless body of a 21-year-old prisoner, hanged in a cell in the disciplinary section in which he had been placed three days earlier, following threats made to against a fellow prisoner, learned
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from the prosecutor, Raphaël Balland.
An investigation for "search for the causes of death", "as is systematically ordered in the event of the presumed suicide of a detainee within the penitentiary center", has been opened, indicates the representative of the Béziers prosecution.
An autopsy of the victim's body will also be performed in the coming days.
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