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Mohamed Amra Gets 16 Days in Disciplinary Confinement at Vendin‑le‑Vieil

The case concerns the recaptured trafficker whose 2024 prison ambush left two officers dead.

Mohamed Amra à l'aéroport de Bucarest (Roumanie) avant d'être rapatrié par avion en France le 25 février 2025

Overview

  • A prison disciplinary panel on Tuesday ordered the sanction inside the high‑security unit at Vendin‑le‑Vieil in northern France.
  • Authorities accuse Amra of deliberately flooding his cell by blocking the shower drain, with additional allegations that he covered peepholes and used insulting language toward staff.
  • Attorney Lucas Montagnier says Amra does not dispute the facts and will not file an appeal.
  • Nearly 90 narcotrafficking detainees have been concentrated in the prison’s new organized‑crime unit since late July, and many court challenges to transfers and conditions have been rejected.
  • Collective unrest in the unit included deliberate cell flooding in August and a September hunger strike that has now ended, according to a prison source.