Didier Migaud conducts an inspection of the Aix-Luynes penitentiary center after murders linked to drug trafficking

The Minister of Justice made this decision after the deaths of a 15-year-old teenager and a 36-year-old man in Marseille. Both of these cases are linked to an inmate at this prison.

An inspection on the functioning of the Aix-Luynes penitentiary center will be carried out by the Ministry of Justice, announced Wednesday October 9 the Minister of Justice Didier Migaud, after the death of a 15-year-old teenager and a man aged 36 in Marseille against a backdrop of violence linked to drug trafficking.“I have decided to carry out an inspection entrusted to the General Inspectorate of Justice concerning the operation of this penitentiary center,” explained the minister, questioned by Senator Marie-Arlette Carlotti (PS) during the question session to the government. “I want to know why all this happened.”insisted Didier Migaud.

A 15-year-old teenager was killed in Marseille on October 2, “stabbed with 50 stab wounds” And “burned alive”while he was carrying out a contract for which he had been recruited, via social networks, by a 23-year-old man detained at the Luynes penitentiary center, near Aix-en-Provence. Two days later, a 36-year-old man, collateral victim of the gang war in Marseille, was killed by a 14-year-old boy who had been recruited by the same Luynes inmate to avenge the death of the 15-year-old. This homicide was supposed to be revenge on the part of the other, but it resulted in the death of a person completely outside this gang war.

“It is obvious that the continuation of criminal activities since detention is not admissible”added Didier Migaud, assuring that he wanted to continue the fight against traffic “illicit objects in prison”. The Minister of Justice also expressed his intention to “return soon” in Marseille, a visit that he will make jointly with the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau.

He further assured that the examination of the bill “aiming to get France out of the trap of drug trafficking”tabled in the Senate in July, was “only postponed”. “I hope, like you, that we can, before the end of the year, debate this proposal.”he assured, specifying that this time would allow him to“expertise” all measures provided for by the text.