an investigation opened after the escape of twelve migrants from an administrative detention center

They took advantage of a failure on the gates to get out on Wednesday evening. All are still on the run. An investigation is opened.

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Twelve migrants escaped on Wednesday, September 14, from the Administrative Retention Center (CRA) in Metz by exploiting a lack of security gates, franceinfo learned this Thursday from the Moselle prefecture, confirming information from Europe 1.

They were able to go out in the evening, around 8:45 p.m. “Measures are being taken to search for the individuals”, explains the prefecture of Moselle to franceinfo. A judicial inquiry has also been opened to determine the circumstances of the leak and to arrest these individuals, adds the prefecture.

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An administrative detention center is a center allowing the detention in a closed place of a foreigner who is the subject of a deportation decision, pending his forced deportation. Retention is decided by the administration.

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