Miscellaneous. After a fire at Bordeaux-Gradignan prison, one person was killed and another seriously injured.

On Wednesday, a prisoner in his twenties was found dead in his Bordeaux-Gradignan penitentiary centre cell.

Miscellaneous. After a fire at Bordeaux-Gradignan prison, one person was killed and another seriously injured.

On Wednesday, a prisoner in his twenties was found dead in his Bordeaux-Gradignan penitentiary centre cell. He shared the room with a fellow prisoner. He was taken to hospital in serious condition. We learned this from the prosecution as well as the unions. The prison is the largest in France.

After a fire broke out in a cell, Hubert Gratraud (FO delegate) at Bordeaux-Gradignan prison centre, the prison staff intervened.

Staff were alerted and managed to "extract one detainee, born in Algeria in 1984, whose vital prognosis had been engaged when he received treatment by firefighters and the SAMU. According to the Bordeaux parquet floor, the emergency services were unable to note the death of the second person born in 2002 in Morocco.

Two detainees were in pre-trial custody for acts of gang violence, according to the prosecution. This opened an investigation into the causes and circumstances of death that was entrusted by the Departmental Security. A preliminary autopsy and toxicological analysis are underway.

A third detainee, who occupied the cell just hours before the fire, was transferred "following an altercation". Hubert Gratraud stated that the drama was linked to prison overcrowding, with 608 individuals being held for 240 individual cells.

Statistics from the Ministry of Justice show that Bordeaux-Gradignan was France's most crowded remand centre, with a density of 225% or more on May 1.

"We may be alerted, but justice continues to imprison. There were four prisoners per cell. How far will it go? ", protests the trade unionists of the remand centre where prisoners awaiting trial or those who have been sentenced to shorter sentences are held in prison.

"We are close to the 150 mattresses on ground. I've been in Gradignan 20 years, and we have never been to this level before," Ronan Roudaut (assistant secretary Ufap - Unsa justice Bordeaux), majority union in the prison, said.

According to Dominique Simonnot (Controller General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty), the fire broke out as a mission was underway to control places of deprivation of liberty in Gradignan. This is a "totally abandoned prison" that has been "two suicides" in May.

It presented its annual report on Thursday. It called for a reduction in prison overcrowding to stop prisons "manufacturing crime".