The organization within the prison of Fresnes of events inspired by the TV game “Koh Lanta” for the benefit of charitable associations was a “controversial act”admitted Monday on CNews the organizer while ensuring that “the goal was not to shock”. Called “Kohlanness”, this event, organized on July 27, bringing together detainees, guards and young people from Fresnes (Val-de-Marne), provoked the indignation of several right and far-right personalities after the broadcast of a video on Friday on social networks showing in particular a go-kart race in the prison yard.
“We should not reduce our approach to karting” – Enzo Angelo Santo, producer of “Kohlanness”
“Everything was in the rules. We did not expect that” from the Ministry of Justice, explained Enzo Angelo Santo, producer of “Kohlanness” assuring that the ministry had validated this demonstration. “The goal was to show, for a moment, a moment of humanity between inmates, guards and young people from the neighborhood”he added.
“We should not reduce our approach to karting”, he insisted, specifying that “all detainees” who participated in the show were “people able to reintegrate” and “in school”. If people detained for short sentences “are reduced to eating, sleeping, eating, sleeping with possibly an hour of sport, they will be on the margins of society when they go out”, estimated Mr. Angelo Santo.