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FRANCE: CNDS report into Vincennes detention centre death

01 July 2010

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CNDS report into Vincennes detention centre death (link)

"On 5 July 2010, the Commission nationale de déontologie de la sécurité (CNDS, National Commission for the professional ethics of security forces) was critical of the decision to keep a man in detention in spite of his poor health when it issued an opinion and recommendations on the case involving the death of SS, a Tunisian national, in Paris-Vincennes detention centre for foreigners on 21 June 2008. The incident was followed by a protest within the centre, the largest of its kind in France, which had a capacity that was twice as high as the regulation capacity for French centres de rétention administrative (CRAs) for foreigners (140), and the revolt ended when the centre's two compounds (CRA 1 and CRA 2) burned on 22 June. On 17 March 2010, ten former detainees were convicted for violent acts and the fire during the protest in a trial that was criticised as having a foregone conclusion and as isolating events from their context by defence lawyers, who walked out of proceedings after the fourth hearing."

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