Mobilization for a prisoner to the thirty-seven years prison

Un thousand people have already signed a call for Philippe El Shennawy a robber 58 years who has spent thirty-seven years behind bars and is releasable in 2032. Case considered "inhuman", which is based the issue of long sentences.

They are already more than a thousand to support its cause. Launched by five personalities from academia and the judiciary, calling for the prisoner Philippe El Shennawy request that the appeal filed by mid-December by his lawyer to the Head of State "should be considered with urgency and humanity to prevent what would be a disguised fulfillment. " This 58 year old man, convicted multiple times for robberies and escapes - and "no blood on their hands," says the petition in its favor - has spent thirty-seven years behind bars. Now it is releasable in 2032, at the age of 78 years."The prison has no function to dehumanize people it holds," insists this text reminds El Shennawy "has lived nineteen years in solitary confinement in a psychiatric hospital six (was never diagnosed no dementia at home) and forty times changed place of detention. " Prison in Poissy (Yvelines), held that the astonishing tenacity, supported by an infallible wife, arrived "at the end of its resources," describes his lawyer, Virginia Bianchi.In recent months, while growing despair of his client engaged in a long hunger strike, counsel had multiplied procedures, including obtaining judges a few years of confusion sentence. Another application lodged in early December to consider parole was not successful. December 12, El Shennawy tried to end his life. "We went from the need to give meaning to the sentence than to give meaning to his life, 'says Mr. Bianchi. Clemency is then deposited. The Elysee acknowledge receipt on December 19.The act of El Shennawy galvanized (...) Read more about LeParisien.frColmar: three detainees have made the belleNanterre: he sets fire to ... voitureNord its own: a septuagenarian password Eve enclosed in a supermarchéLe Olympic champion Mo Farah mistaken for a terrorist to USAPau: two aftershocks of the earthquake on Monday