The inmate, who was serving a minimum sentence for crimes of disobedience during the pandemic, took advantage of chain failures to get out the door
the penitentiary Antoni Asuncion, located in Picassent (Valencia), was the scene last Friday, July 8, of a prison break, but not exactly from a movie, or if it is, one from Berlanga. A 36-year-old prisoner of Moroccan origin, who was serving a minimum sentence for various crimes of disobedience during the pandemic and that finally ended up in the Valencian prison for not showing up at the social integration center (CIS) in Almería, quietly slipped out the doorand without even having “an escape plan” planned, taking advantage of a fault concatenation on safety matter.
Penitentiary Institutions has opened an investigation to clarify possible failures and responsibilities for what happened, since the prisoner would have left with total freedom, going unnoticed, after find at least two open doors on your way when going to an appointment with a bailiff scheduled for 10:00 on Friday of last week.
There are about a dozen officials whose actions are going to be analyzed with a magnifying glass, according to prison sources, also in search of correct possible errors to prevent it from being repeated. In fact, the inmate even had time to stop in the cafeteria to have a drink, as this newspaper has learned, before completely leaving the prison for the last control, in which officials do not ask for any type of documentation when leaving – to enter yes.
Thus, it is suspected that the prisoner, who initially I wouldn’t have planned to escape When he went to the appointment, he was able to take advantage of the fact that the door of the parlor was open to go out, mingling with the civilian population that goes to prisons to visit relatives, lawyers and personnel from non-governmental organizations.
The prisoner he was dressed in normal street clothes and the officials of the garita would not have given greater importance to the think it was one of the visitors. Specifically, to be able to leave from the locutorio area to the outside, he had to pass two filters. In the first the door saw her open, a fact that surely made him opt for the escape when she had barely spent eight months behind bars and it was a matter of time before she was released.
Now he would face a sentence of six months to a year in prison for a crime of breach of sentence. In the case of having used violence, intimidation, riots or force on things – that he had manipulated the lock of a door, for example – the penalty would be much greater, up to four years in prison, but in this case to not having forced anything and just walk out the door It would be the same crime committed by the inmate in the third degree who does not return after a permit.
Likewise, according to the sources consulted by this newspaper, the notice to the Civil Guard reporting the leak did not occur until seven in the evening, that is, close to nine hours later of the prisoner’s escape.
The Civil Guard also investigates whether the prisoner could count on the help or collusion of someone within the prison itself. The Picassent Investigation Court number one, on duty the day the escape occurred, has issued a search and arrest warrant against the fugitive, who has no record of violent crimes and whose trail was lost walking down the highway A-7.