We met Rédoine Faïd in prison: “Mistakes are not regretted, they are accepted”

2023-11-01 19:48:18

“I have a visit permit for Rédoine Faïd, I am a journalist. » Behind the reception window, the face of the supervisor who controls entries to the visiting room tenses, but my name on the list of visitors seems to reassure him. It’s a little before eight o’clock this Tuesday, October 24, night still hangs over Fleury-Mérogis (Essonne), the largest remand center in Europe, almost a factory for inmates. On a bench, a young girl, who has come to see her boyfriend incarcerated for drugs, stares at me, half intrigued, half impressed by the name she has just heard.