It is an attack of unimaginable violence. A detainee from the La Talaudière penitentiary center (Loire) was indicted on Friday for the bare-handed murder of his fellow prisoner, we learned on Sunday from a judicial source.
“The surprising explanations given by this man to explain his outburst of violence led us to wonder about his mental state,” said André Merle, the deputy public prosecutor of Saint-Étienne, confirming information from the regional daily Le Progrès. . The magistrate who specifies that the defendant is “someone who has a complicated career”. He was moved to another facility.
A “brief and intense” attack
The magistrate simply indicated that the doctor who examined this 29-year-old man, presented to a judge on Friday, indicted for murder and returned to detention, had deemed his condition “compatible with police custody”. He was already imprisoned for acts of violence.
The 25-year-old victim died Thursday at Saint-Étienne University Hospital as a result of blows received during the previous night. Both were in their cell in the semi-freedom section of the La Talaudière penitentiary center when the attack took place.
Supervisors who were in another building were alerted by CCTV images. The younger of the two was unconscious when they arrived there. “The few minutes needed to arrive on the spot will be sufficient for a real outburst of violence, fatal to one of the detainees”, explains the prosecutor to our colleagues from Progress. “We are on a very brief and intense moment”.