“This is not serious”. guest of Face to face, The new daily meeting presented by Apolline de Malherbe, Éric Ciotti has not taken off since the publication on Friday of a video recorded on July 27 at the Fresnes prison in Val-de-Marne. We see guards and prisoners compete in a fun competition called “Kohlanness”, which combines karting events, a contest, water games, in a spirit inspired by the famous TV show. The Republican network has also held the Keeper of the Seals accountable.
Ciotti deplores a “hypocrisy in the Keeper of the Seals”
“These images shocked many French people, victims,” the Republican parliamentarian first assured, expanding: “I imagine a person attacked whose attacker is in Fresnes and sees these images with a swimming pool… This is not serious, it is shocking These images are not admissible.”
Éric Ciotti summed up the double mission that he assigns to detention: “A sentence must have a meaning, it is a punishment. You must have this social vocation. It must be reparation for the victims and their families and there is that dimension of exemplary.”
While the Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, announced over the weekend the start of an administrative investigation to clarify this “Kohlanness” in the face of the emerging controversy, the Ministry of Justice admitted that it was informed of the fact. As for the video of the discord, it seems that it has been validated by the communication department of the ministry according to our information.
Should we then consider that the Foreign Ministry is to blame? “Of course there is a fault. All this is not responsible,” said Éric Ciotti, who once again lashed out at a “form of hypocrisy in the Guardian of the Seals’ speech.”
“Reported or not reported,” he stressed, noting: “You can’t ask for an investigation if the cabinet knew about it.”
An illustration of macronism according to Éric Ciotti
Éric Ciotti has seen beyond the end of the Place Vendôme. For him, the case concentrates all the failings that he attributes to the neighbor Elysée: “We do things but pretend the opposite. It is the ‘and at the same time’ permanent.”
“It is the impotence of a government to sanction those who do not respect the law, so that the sanction is dissuasive. These images do not give the sensation of a dissuasive sanction”, he continued.
If Eric Ciotti hammered that prisons could not be “a festive place”, nevertheless he recognized that their “humanization” was necessary. “A reality show in a prison yard has nothing to do with reintegration work, which I do not question,” summed up the deputy.
His ways to improve the situation in prisons.
He also gave the main lines of the reintegration work that he claims: “It goes through work, we need follow-up, we lack the means.” “The prison administration is the poor relative of the Ministry of Justice,” lamented the parliamentarian who even suggested the creation of a delegated ministry or a secretary of state for prisons. “We are very short of prison places,” Eric Ciotti was also distressed, considering that it is an additional bankruptcy of the Executive. Indeed, he identified the construction of “just under 2,000 prison places” during Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term, when the latter had promised 15,000.
Finally, Éric Ciotti judged that the controversy raised questions about the dangers of a possible gender confusion: “The rights of detainees must be preserved, but each one has their own vocations: magistrates, police officers and prison officials have the his”.
Source: BFM TV
