the State is “overwhelmed” and “no longer even manages to protect its civil servants”, denounces Bruno Retailleau

An attack on Tuesday on a prison van at the Incarville tollbooth in Eure left two prison officers dead and three injured.

“The State is overwhelmed” and he “has lost control and can no longer even protect his officials“, denounces Bruno Retailleau, president of the Les Républicains group in the Senate, on franceinfo Wednesday May 15. Two prison officers were killed in the attack on a van on Tuesday near the Incarville tollbooth, in Eure.

For the boss of LR senators, “resources are lacking, particularly in prisons”. If it is necessary “of course, no more prison places”the Vendée senator calls “to change everything”. Returning to the profile of the prisoner on the run, who has already been sentenced 13 times, Bruno Retailleau actually “a typical case” Or “we want, under the pretext of educating young delinquents, we do not sanction them”.

“The problem is that we do not sanction young delinquent minors or too late and therefore we let them settle into a course of delinquency, and at the start, they steal an egg and then the crime happens, but It’s already too late”he castigated. “We must reverse the logic,” he argued, “the sanction is also the prerequisite for education”.

The leader of the right in the Senate recalled that he wanted “short prison sentences from the first offenses“, including for minors, for whom he wants the criminal majority to be lowered to 16 years and remove “the minority excuse”which halves the quantum of the penalty incurred.