The prison of Gradignan, Marouane Khaled, was released by mistake this Wednesday, April 30 because of his name, very similar to that of an inmate who was to be released. A research mandate was issued as well as a European arrest warrant. For penitentiary unions, “this is a very unfortunate error”.
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“It’s a big dumpling, we’re not going to lie”. Ronan Roudaut of the Gironde UFAP UNSA penitentiary union reacted this release in this Saturday morning. “There is an internal investigation and we will see, but it is a fairly embarrassing matter. I hope that the escape is not going to commit other crimes knowing that he was condemned in the context of a flight and death of a man involved in cocaine traffic”.
Marouane Khaled, 25, was released when he had to serve a sentence until 2035 for thefts with violence that led to death. Another man with almost similar name was to be released in his place.
For the unionist UFAP Unsa, this error is linked to the lack of staff in the face of chronic prison overcrowding.“It is that unfortunately, we have an establishment which is cut for 633 prisoners, but currently, we regularly tap the 1130 prisoners. So, we do not have the staff to manage so many people, and we are not immune to this kind of error”.
According to him, the head of the grafting of Gradignan prison has already alerted to this problem in the past. “He alerted to the state of fatigue of all the personnel of the transplant and the lack of reinforcement. We have the same problem in detention. The staff is missing. It was under sized as soon as we open. And we continue to work with staff who are quite tired, with a criminal population which is far too large”, says Ronan Roudaut.
We don’t have time to do all checks that should be done in normal times. We are not immune to an error.
Ronan Roudaut,UFAP UNSA union delegate
Solicited by France 3 Aquitaine, the FO Justice union, Hubert Gratraud, also reacted this morning. “This is a very rare error. The detainees are spun and he seized an opportunity and he took advantage of it.”
-According to this other trade unionist who has been in Gradignan prison for 23 years, this is a problem of training and enhancement of the mission of agent of the registry.
Penitentiary agents working in the registry, they are called the registry agents, but they have no training of clerks. The agent made mistakes and the investigation will allow you to know what happened exactly.
Hubert Gratraud,fu justice delegate
The registry agents in prison are prison agents, but they learn on the ground. Furthermore, this function is not at all valuing when this mission has a heavy criminal responsibility. We have very few agents who want to become registry agents given the responsibility that can have heavy consequences, you see “regrets Hubert Gratraud.
The release procedure is also to be reviewed. “There have been hiccups, you have to put a more structured release process with alert means.”
A judicial investigation was opened and entrusted to the organized and specialized crime division (DCOS) to determine the circumstances of his release and locate the detainee, still not found this Saturday.
Sentenced in 2024 and imprisoned at the prison center of Bordeaux-Gradignan, this detainee was “Unducarily released, (…) in place of an individual whose name was very close“, confirmed yesterday the public prosecutor of Bordeaux, Renaud Gaudeul.
This release, made possible by an administrative error, occurred on April 30. According to the magistrate, a judicial investigation was immediately opened to determine the circumstances in which it was able to occur. The investigation must also allow this individual to be found.
Questioned during a press briefing during a trip to the Metz administrative detention center on Friday, the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau said he had “been seized of this case, which also concerns the Minister of Justice.
“The means, we have put them. I hope this error will be repaired as quickly as possible”he added.
Marouane Khaled who lives in the Bordeaux suburbs, participated in a flight of six kilos of cocaine and the death of a passer, “a mule” who returned from Guyanne, killed in his apartment in August 2019, in Talence.
