Toulouse: three months for package designers at the Seysses remand center
Thursday, two young people suspected of being involved in the projection of packages in the Seysses remand center were tried and sentenced in immediate comparison in Toulouse.
Louna* and Ahmed* look away from each other. Anyway, they say they don’t know each other. Yet they were arrested together on the morning of the 1uh August, not far from Seysses prison, following a report of parcels being thrown in the outer courtyard of the remand prison. Today, Louna is seated among the audience, accompanied by her mother. When the president calls her name, she gets up with a determined step to go to the bar, adjusting a pink miniskirt with white flowers. Ahmed, he is in detention and stares straight ahead, a gray Lacoste t-shirt and looking submissive and scared.
Last Monday, around 6:30 a.m., the gendarmes were warned of a series of package projections towards the Seysses remand center, near Toulouse. On the spot, they come across a car with three people on board: Louna, Ahmed and a third man. Louna is driving but, after an initial hesitation, refuses to stop and embarks on a desperate flight, which does not go very far. She does not have a permit and has only been out of prison for a few months in Seysses for insulting anyone in charge of public authority. She then justifies her flight out of fear. Fear of being arrested again, of the two men she is transporting and whom she says she does not know. As for the parcels, Louna declares having been there at the request of her companion, detained in Seysses, to recover two of her friends, but to know nothing of the projected parcels. Ahmed does not deny having taken part in the screening, but the dynamics of the facts remain confused. Who brought them there? Where were the packages left? Who were they for? Questions that will remain unanswered.
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Ahmed, who arrived as a minor in France, has an already well-stocked record for narcotics and violence. Today, he is on trial for his irregular presence on French territory, after repeated non-compliance with his house arrest. Louna is judged for lack of permit at the time of her arrest and for refusing to comply. She is not at her first comparison, but repeatedly refers to her good faith and her marginal and naive involvement in the case, a position supported by her lawyer, Me Charlotte Cambon.
When Deputy Prosecutor Deslandes speaks, he refers to the scourge of package projections in the Seysses remand center. For Louna, he asks for a probationary reprieve of two years and the electronic bracelet for two months. For Ahmed, four months of detention. Ahmed’s lawyer, Me Thiam SangonĂ©, pleads a difficult situation of isolation and loneliness and asks for support rather than punishment. The president, Me Murat Goncat, decides: three months of detention for him, three months of electronic bracelet and 150 € fine for her. The mystery of the packages thrown into the Seysses remand center remains to be elucidated.
*names changed.