Fifteen years after the first state conviction for unworthy conditions of detention in the Rouen remand center, a new conviction for the other Upper Normandy remand center, in Evreux. The administrative court of Rouen recognized the non-respect of the regulations of the European Court of Human Rights which requires 3m² per prisoner in a cell.
Another victory for the lawyer from Rouen, Etienne Noël, which has been fighting for nearly 20 years to have the problems of detention and prison overcrowding recognized. A chronic evil that concerns all French prisons. Despite his victories, the Rouen lawyer has little hope of changing things, but there is an important element according to him: “the revaluation for the image of the prisoner who obtains the condemnation of the State and who obtains compensation for his damage“.
At the Evreux remand center, 35 detainees seized the administrative court. The State has just been condemned for 8 of the first 9 cases judged. The compensation goes up to 7000 euros for the highest.