Marseille: a prison officer at Baumettes prison indicted for rape
A sensible business. A prison officer at Baumettes prison is accused of rape according to information from BFM Marseille weakened by the prosecution. He was referred following his police custody on Friday, indicted for two of the facts he is accused and placed under judicial supervision on a third, we informed.
The prosecutor, who did not suggest communicating more simply on the subject, specifies that the person in question had also been placed “under the status of assisted witness for another part of these same facts” of rape.
According to BFM Marseille, the supervisor of Beaumettes – a prison center which has a women’s section with around a hundred places – is the subject of a complaint from a 41-year-old prisoner, who accuses him of having raped her on several occasions. The Daily Provence specifies that the denounced facts “will occur between last summer and the month of March”. An investigation has been opened and designated to the departmental security of Bouches-du-Rhône.
According to a source close to the case, the detainee, imprisoned for a matter related to the custody of her child, would have already brought such accusations in another establishment against the prison staff.
A supervisor “recognized by his peers”
The suspect is a man in his thirties, who has worked for ten years in prison. “He is recognized by his peers and has an unblemished professional record. He has never been noticed and he is respected by his superiors. He is not known for complaints from detainees, his career is perfect”, describes Me Béatrice Zavarro, his lawyer, who adds that his client “fallen from above”.
“The report of the offense seems very serious but before drawing hasty conclusions, we must let the investigating judge act, estive Me Béatrice Zavarro. I have high hopes for the rest of the events and the rest of the procedure. »