The Minister of Justice strongly condemned the event in a tweet published on Saturday, announcing that he had requested the opening of an investigation.
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“I was never informed.” Traveling to Fleury-Mérogis (Essonne) on Tuesday August 23, the Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti assured about the “Kohlanness” event organized at the Fresnes prison (Val-de-Marne) at the end of July that “what has been validated is a Koh-Lanta competition, in which there was never any question of karting”. “If I had known, it would not have happened”, he also hammered.
For him, the organization of this event is contrary to the two roles he attributes to prison: punishment and reintegration. “In these pictures (from the “Kohlanness” event in Fresnes) that I have seen, there is no sanction, no reintegration”, reacted the minister. Eric Dupond Moretti ensures that the investigation he has requested reveals a “initiative of the director of Fresnes prison with the organizer”adding that the conclusions of this investigation report would be available “in the coming hours.”
After the publication of the images of the‘event “Kohlanness in prison” on social networks, the controversy ignited. In response, the Minister of Justice split a tweet on Saturday, to announce the opening of an investigation. Eric Dupond-Moretti mentioned “shocking pictures” and estimated that “the fight against recidivism” not “did not go through karting”. For its part, the organizer of the event acknowledged “a controversial act” while specifying that he wanted to show “a moment of humanity between inmates, guards and young people from the neighborhood”on the set of CNews on Monday.