Eric Dupond-Moretti challenges an activity organized at Fresnes prison

It is once again information that has ignited on social networks that has led a minister to react. Maybe a little too quickly. Sunday August 21, the watchword at the Ministry of Justice was to try to calm things down by taking a vow of silence, twenty-four hours after the threatening message posted by Eric Dupond-Moretti on Twitter. Reacting to a video streamed on YouTube showing detainees participating in a karting race with guards at Fresnes prison (Val-de-Marne), as part of an activity called “Kohlanness” (in reference to the reality TV show “Koh-Lanta”), the Keeper of the Seals wrote on Saturday on Twitter: “After the shocking images from Fresnes prison, I immediately ordered an investigation so that all the light could be shed. The fight against recidivism goes through reintegration, but certainly not through karting! »

Nobody in the office of the Keeper of the Seals or in the management of the prison administration had the right, on Sunday, to speak about this affair which was gaining momentum in the media and on Twitter. The minister’s reaction, which came after several personalities close to the far right helped to raise online indignation around this video, contributed to this excitement.

The investigation immediately ordered “so that all light may be shed” will not be entrusted to the general inspection of justice, contrary to what the tone of the minister let presuppose. It will probably be up to the management of the prison administration to report on this affair, learned The world from a good source.

Only two prisoners concerned

It is that the words of Mr. Dupond-Moretti put his administration at odds. The pictures he found “shocking”have, in fact, been validated by the Ministry of Justice before their broadcast on YouTube, as revealed Le Figaro. According to our information, the “dircom”, as the services of the communication department of Place Vendôme are called, even intervened four times to request, and obtain, modifications to the content of this video supposed to summarize an organized activity. July 27 in this prison with the help of three associations of the municipality. While each filming in detention requires authorizations going back to the central directorates of the ministry, the merger of the communication services of the various directorates carried out in 2020 has further strengthened the centralization of this process as close as possible to the minister’s office.

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