While Pierre Palmade was indicted on Friday February 17 for “manslaughter” after his involvement in a serious road accident, his “house arrest under electronic surveillance” (in an addiction service) provoked many reactions . Is the electronic bracelet a kind of privilege? This was the question at the center of this interview with Philippe Combessie, sociologist specializing in the prison environment, published in June 2022, and which we invite you to read again today.
This is an accommodation that French justice sometimes grants to French politicians when they are convicted: the right, instead of serving their sentence in a prison establishment, to be placed “in house arrest under electronic monitoring”. That is to say, most often, to stay at home with an electronic bracelet attached to the ankle or wrist.
Nicolas Sarkozy, sentenced in September 2021 in the Bygmalion case to one year in prison, could thus be forced to wear the bracelet (he appealed against his conviction). Patrick Balkany, imprisoned in 2019 at the prison of Health, saw his sentence changed to the wearing of a bracelet in February 2020… before being imprisoned again, this time in Fleury-Mérogis, in February for not having ” accepted the constraints house arrest (says justice). François Fillon was sentenced on appeal a few weeks ago to four years in prison, including one year
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