The household of Dennis G., inmate found hanged in his cell at Fresnes prison (Val-de-Marne) on January 23, 2023, filed an attraction on Wednesday Could 13 earlier than the executive court docket of Melun with the intention to maintain the State liable, in line with a doc consulted this Thursday by AFP. Schizophrenic and identified for his tendencies suicidalthe person was positioned in pre-trial detention in March 2021 after his indictment for rape and sexual assault.
This process comes after the dismissal pronounced on the finish of Could 2025 within the judicial investigation opened following a grievance in opposition to manslaughter and failure to help an individual in peril. The household’s lawyer, Me Antoine Ory, indicated that he had appealed this resolution. Within the administrative attraction, the kinfolk nonetheless imagine {that a} fault was “dedicated by the jail administration” attributable to “the absence of applicable care”.
The household is asking for 360,000 euros in damages
The household requests the annulment of the implicit refusal against its request forcompensation filed in January in addition to the ordering of the State to pay a complete of 360,000 euros for the damages suffered. The attraction mentions particularly “quite a few negligences within the supervision” of the detainee and “a disorganization of the service slowing down the resuscitation course of”. For Me Antoine Ory, “this case is symptomatic of the way in which by which the detainees presenting psychiatric pathologies are handled in detention”, including that “many warning indicators have sadly not been heeded by the jail administration”.
The jail administration, for its half, affirms that Dennis G. “was taken into psychiatric care at completely different ranges” throughout his detention and that he “benefited from common monitoring till a couple of days earlier than the occasions”. She additionally considers that “nothing permits, at this stage, to think about attainable faults of workers or a scarcity of care”.
