Muslim Prison Chaplain Expelled for Alleged Luxury Perfume Smuggling

A Muslim chaplain in prisons for over ten years, the 49-year-old man is accused of selling luxury perfumes to inmates at the Meaux-Chauconin prison, in violation of the regulations of the penitentiary institution from which he has just been excluded, reports Europe 1.

As a chaplain, his job is to appease tensions between inmates. But at the end of September, the man was caught by the guards of the isolation ward giving luxury perfume bottles to an inmate serving a sentence for international drug trafficking.

Suspected of doing this business in the prison, the chaplain was banned from accessing the establishment. For his part, the man denies the facts and denounces a discriminatory attitude of the prison guards towards him. He plans to refer the matter to the competent administrative court to challenge this decision.