In Bordeaux, an inmate escaped without his own free will – Liberation

How to get away with peace of mind, without even planning to do so. A 25 -year -old detainee, sentenced in November for fatal blows, was released Wednesday April 30 by mistake in place of another prisoner with almost similar surname, said the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office on Friday evening, confirming information from the newspaper South West.

This detainee, who was to serve « A sentence of ten years’ imprisonment for theft acts with violence that led to death » – an accidental shot in a cocaine trafficking case dating from 2019, according to the Bordeaux daily newspaper – was « Unducarily released by the prison center of Bordeaux-Gradignan, in place of an individual whose name was very close », explains the public prosecutor of Bordeaux, Renaud Gaudeul, in a press release.

After RMC and BFM TVthe names of the two detainees differ only from a letter, a D for one, one k for the other. The man in Ka given the penitentiary supervisors arriving in his cell and signify his release and his house arrest. Not crazy, he confirmed his identity, then vanished in nature.

A judicial investigation was opened and entrusted to the organized and specialized crime division (DCOS) to determine the circumstances of his release and find the detainee. A research mandate has been issued since Wednesday evening, as is a European arrest warrant. « The facts for which the released detainee was condemned were obvious. However, it is not identified as part of the top of the spectrum of organized crime ”, dare the prosecutor, adding that research to find him « Continued very actively ».

Asked during a press briefing during a trip to the Metz administrative detention center on Friday, the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, said he had « Been seized of this case, which also concerns the Minister of Justice » :: “The means, we put them. I hope this error will be repaired as quickly as possible ”, he added.

As for the man in D, the story did not say on Friday evening if he had indeed been released.