US EditionDetainees Flood Vendin-Le-Vieil's Drug Dealer's Prison
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Inmates in the high-security neighborhood for drug traffickers deliberately flooded their cells two nights in a row.
In France, inmates of the high-security prison Vendin-le-Vieil, in the north of the country, voluntarily flooded their cell during the night of Wednesday to Thursday. Most of them contest their condition of detention in the new district of fight against organized crime (QLCO), a neighborhood for drug traffickers deemed dangerous. According to the prison unions, these acts follow the protests of the detainees, dozens of them have indeed taken leg…
This is the second incident this week. Prisoners from the new neighborhood for drug traffickers in the prison had voluntarily flooded their cells during the night of Wednesday to Thursday.
On Wednesday 27 August, around midnight and a half, several inmates of the high-security prison in Vendin-le-Vieil, including drug traffickers, voluntarily flooded their cells, until they flooded the water in the corridors. Others even blocked their shower. A coordinated action, while these prisoners, considered dangerous, are supposed to be in isolation. The prison officers had to sponge and restore calm. Monday, several of them will start a hu…
According to prison trade unionists, this was the most notable incident since the establishment of the district to combat organized crime in Vendin-le-Vieil, where 88 prisoners arrived between the end of July and the beginning of August.
On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, several prisoners from the drug dealer's quarters of the Vendin-le-Vieil prison (Pas-de-Calais) voluntarily flooded their cells, causing overflows until...
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