Overview
- A trainee officer was wounded in the throat around 7 p.m. Saturday during evening meal distribution by a detainee wielding a homemade pointed plastic knife, and he left hospital Sunday with no life-threatening injuries.
- The assailant, identified as having psychiatric disorders, was placed in isolation in a disciplinary unit and is expected to be placed in police custody this week.
- Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said he spoke with the trainee and directed the prison administration to equip surveillance staff with incapacitating grenades, with prison-by-prison deployment and a decree change being prepared.
- FO-Justice and UFAP-Unsa-Justice called nationwide action from Monday, with reported blockages or walkouts at La Talaudière, Roanne and Saint-Quentin-Fallavier.
- Unions tie the incident to rising violence, chronic understaffing and the incarceration of people with severe psychiatric needs, and they are pressing for body cameras, electric stun devices, anti-drone measures and specialized treatment units.