“A procedure for escape has been opened” and the detainee is “actively sought”, specified the public prosecutor, François Pérain.
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A poem and then leaves. An inmate from Nancy-Maxéville prison, who was on leave to participate in a performance at the Opéra de Lorraine, escaped on Friday April 29 at the end of the show, AFP learned from the floor, Monday, May 2. “A procedure for escape has been opened” and the inmate is “actively sought”added the public prosecutor, François Pérain.
The young man, born in 1999, had taken part in a participatory show created by the Opéra national de Lorraine, alongside other prisoners, inhabitants of the districts of Nancy and schoolchildren, accompanied by ten musicians from the opera symphony orchestra. The sentence enforcement judge had granted him permission to leave.
According to the daily The Republican East (article reserved for subscribers), the young prisoner read one of his poems on stage, then took part in the friendly drink organized at the end of the performance, which the mayor of Nancy, Mathieu Klein, also attended. At the end of the show, the inmate “left the theater”explaining that he “wanted to breathe”, clarified Francis Perain. He had been imprisoned since February 2019 for “acts of theft and aggravated violence”, according to the floor. He was to be released on September 1.