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
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.“