Vendin-le-Vieil: Inmates deliberately cause flooding at drug prison
Inmates in the new drug trafficking section of Vendin-le-Vieil prison (Pas-de-Calais) deliberately flooded their cells on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, causing water to overflow into the corridors.
This incident is the most notable since the establishment of the QLCO in Vendin-le-Vieil, which accommodates 88 prisoners who arrived between the end of July and the beginning of August, said a local UFAP representative. Photo Sipa / Michel Euler
The new drug trafficking section of Vendin-le-Vieil prison is a hotbed of tension. Inmates deliberately flooded their cells overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, causing water to overflow into the corridors, according to the prison union UFAP.
On Thursday at around 12:30 a.m., "three out of four corridors" of building no. 2 of the new anti-organized crime unit (QLCO) in Vendin "were deliberately flooded by inmates," according to a press release from the Ufap prison union.
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"The officers had to use a squeegee to clean up (...). The officers are there to ensure security and surveillance, not to clean up the excesses of individuals who indulge in provocation and degradation," denounces the UFAP.
"Acts of Rebellion"The union is demanding "a firm response and disciplinary action" against the inmates responsible for these "acts of rebellion" and measures to prevent such incidents from happening again. This incident is the most notable since the establishment of the QLCO in Vendin-le-Vieil, which accommodates 88 inmates who arrived between late July and early August, a local UFAP representative said.
Several dozen of them are contesting their transfer and their conditions of detention in Vendin-le-Vieil before the administrative courts or judges of liberties and detention, in vain so far.
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