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Hunger Strike, Swallowed Piles, Flooded cells... What's Going on at Vendin-Le-Vieil's High-Security Prison?
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Drug traffickers detained in this ultra-secure neighbourhood of Pas-de-Calais multiply incidents to challenge their conditions of detention. Lawyers denounce "inhumane treatment".
Since Monday, a majority of drug traffickers in the new high-security neighbourhood in northern France have protested against their conditions of detention.
Inmates at a French maximum-security prison for dangerous drug traffickers began a hunger strike this week to protest their conditions, a justice ministry spokesman said, confirming French media reports. The hunger strike at the Vendée-les-Vieilles prison in the Pas-de-Calais department began on Monday. The ministry spokesman stressed that it was too early to say how many inmates were participating in the hunger strike. “The prison is operationa…
The prison of Vendin-le-Vieil (Pas-de-Calais), 14 May 2025. CHRISTIAN LIEWIG-POOL/SIPA Three days after its beginning, the hunger strike of a large majority of prisoners in the ultra-secure prison of Vendin-le-Vieil (Pas-de-Calais) settled for a long time and did not seem to show signs of shortness of breath. However, it was difficult to count the prisoners who were part of this protest movement, only one month after the arrival in the new distr…
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