“The number of people detained limits access” to care, declares lawyer Cécile De Oliveira

“The number of people detained limits access” care, declares Maître Cécile De Oliveira, lawyer at the Nantes bar, specialist in criminal law, juvenile and family law, guest of franceino Monday September 30, the day after the testimony of a first victim of the suspect of the murder of Philippine .

This young woman, raped in 2019 by the man implicated in Philippine’s death, asks questions in a letter sent to AFP: “Why did the prison system fail to prevent this recurrence? Why were we unable to stop this escalation of violence leading to the murder of a young woman?”

The law provides access to “psychiatric and sometimes psychological care” to prisoners as well “Before” that“after their trial”explains Master Cécile De Oliveira. But in the face of “prison overcrowding”the question of “the effectiveness of access to care” arises. If the detainees are “rather in high demand”THE “the means of hospital psychiatry mean that we must limit the number of meetings” with caregivers, regrets the lawyer. Me De Oliviera points out the same problem with “probation services”who work to integrate prisoners.

The lawyer also considers that“no law will ever prevent all crimes”. “There can be human disasters, just as there are climatic disasters, and [elles] cannot be avoided, whatever the harshness and repressiveness of the laws.”explains Cécile De Oliveira. The lawyer also asserts that “criminal recidivism rates are very low”. “It’s obviously an unbearable sentence”for the victims of repeat offenders, “but yet it’s reality”.