CARMAT sets up new artificial heart facility in Bois-d'Arcy
Paris-based artificial organ developer CARMAT has announced it will open a new production facility in Bois-d’Arcy
This will be the second facility opened by the company which will be in the same vicinity as their first operations site
The new facility has been reviewed by the notified body DEKRA who approved it to produce the Aeson total artificial heart
a therapeutic alternative for people with end-stage biventricular heart failure also known as congestive heart failure
The market potential for total artificial hearts (TAHs) is estimated to be over 200,000 units per year in Europe and the US. While the global market for cardiovascular surgery devices is estimated to reach $1,300.9 million by 2025
This expansion will support CARMART’s production capabilities to reach a production capacity of 500 hearts per year as soon as 2024
said: “The opening of our new production facility is a major achievement
and I would like to thank all the teams who have worked relentlessly to ensure that it is delivered on schedule before the end of 2023
with the historical “BDA1” facility and this new “BDA2″ facility
we have a high-performance manufacturing tool that is certified to produce up to 500 hearts per year from 2024
we will further develop our industrial set-up over the next few years
to reach an annual production capacity of 1,000 Aeson hearts by 2027.”
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France — In light of the French International Prison Observatory's (OIP) report published last summer on the findings of a months-long inquiry concerning access to specialist care in prison
we interviewed 54-year-old Béatrice Carton
chair of the French association of healthcare professionals working in the prison service (APSEP)
on her experience working in a detention center
Having a wealth of experience in the prison service
who practices as an independent physician at the Bois-d'Arcy detention center and at the Versailles women's detention center
explained how prison doctors work in the prison service
She also discussed access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic and the difficulties in recruiting new prison doctors
she described her position as "a fantastic job" and explained why
Medscape: How did you come to work as a prison doctor
Carton: I initially worked in the medical department in a hospital as a resident
also providing cover as a GP in the community on several occasions
Like many of my colleagues working in the prison service
Our role is to be independent physicians working in healthcare units in the prison service
I said I'd give it a go for a few years and here I am
Medscape: What did you think when you first entered a prison
Carton: You have to remember how you felt when you first set foot in a prison
otherwise it's hard to understand how some of our patients must feel
There are lots of noises that are different from the ones you might hear outside prison: keys and doors clanking
The inmates often talk to each other from one end of the prison to the other by shouting
Our aim is for this space to be seen as a hospital and not a prison
Medscape: What types of prison do you work in
Carton: I work in the Bois-d'Arcy detention center and at the Versailles women's detention center in Yvelines
These facilities house inmates who've been given a short sentence
prisoners on remand and those who've been handed a long sentence who are awaiting a place in a centrally based prison
This situation isn't unique to Bois-d'Arcy
the occupancy rate at the Bordeaux detention center is 220%
overpopulated prisons result in psychiatric problems
Medscape: When a prisoner arrives at the detention center
what sort of medical care does he or she receive
Carton: They're routinely offered an appointment with a medical professional
In this "arrival phase," the inmate will see a nurse
The aim is to find out about his or her current state of health
to arrange any follow-up appointments if necessary
and to direct them towards any specialist care
Carton: When a person is transferred from one facility to another
we transfer his or her medical records to the doctor (not to the prison administration) for continuity of care
we try to give them as many documents as we can so that they can continue their treatment on the outside
the concern is that inmates may leave overnight without any notice
When prisoners are sent back into the community without any support from the prison service
Medscape: What are the main healthcare problems you deal with
Carton: Psychiatric conditions are overrepresented. There are also very high rates of anxiety and trauma. Due to our patient population, we often deal with addiction problems
Our patients have the same conditions as those seeing their family physician in the community
Medscape: If an inmate requires a specialist consultation
Carton: An ophthalmologist is available in my department every fortnight
I have to see the patient externally in my affiliated hospital in Versailles
Medscape: The OIP recently reported that prisoners may have to wait several months before seeing a specialist
Carton: Wait times depend on which specialist physicians are available in the prison service sector
But it's true that in prison we have some specific difficulties
Once we know a patient requires a specialist consultation
we have to get together a team of prison wardens who are available to accompany them
stay with them for as long as the hospital appointment takes and then take them back again
This is a relatively dignified process for the prisoner
depending on how dangerous he or she is and on the wardens accompanying them
most prisoners don't want to walk down a hospital corridor surrounded by prison wardens
wearing handcuffs or possibly even shackles around their ankles
which ultimately means that they forgo any treatment they could have received
Medscape: The OIP reports particular difficulties with accessing gynecology and dental care
Are some medical specialties particularly stretched
Carton: The main issue is that it's hard to recruit people to work in the prison service
We already have a recruitment crisis for doctors
And then there's the prospect of working behind bars
Looking after people who were often out of reach of healthcare professionals on the outside is very interesting
And it's easier to follow-up patients in a prison setting
Medscape: Do you become attached or feel empathy for your patients because of their situation
I personally don't ask about their criminal past
but they might spontaneously decide to tell me about their history
A doctor in the community doesn't know everything about his or her patient
but that doesn't stop them from treating them
I feel somewhat attached to those who are often socially or economically isolated
They're met with a bit of consideration in our department
Medscape: Could telemedicine improve access to medical care in prison
Carton: Its usage is growing, but often at a much slower rate than we would hope. We've been using telemedicine here since 2014. We've set up specialist teledermatology and telemedicine in anesthesia services
But we're finding it difficult to develop it further
We'd have liked to set up a telecardiology service
but we couldn't find a cardiologist to take on the role
Another problem is that our IT services are very poor and often outdated
it shouldn't be a replacement for doctors physically onsite within the prison service
It would be hell if they stopped seeing doctors in person
Medscape: How is it during the COVID-19 pandemic
Did inmates have access to masks and the vaccine
The situation outside was very anxiety-inducing; the situation inside was even worse
with visiting rooms closing their doors and contact with family members stopped
We had to manage all of this with existing resources
Organizing a vaccination program for 900 people (although only around 100 turned up to be vaccinated)
without additional resources and screening under the same conditions
we didn't have any big outbreaks of COVID in the detention center
we had lots of sick inmates during the later waves
with numerous cases in fall 2021 and early 2022
When you have 95 patients to care for over a 2-week period
Medscape: How did you manage to isolate these sick patients
Carton: We worked hand in hand with the center's management department
we created sort of neutral areas to which nurses were assigned to treat patients and see them once or twice a day
Medscape: Have you had difficulty accessing treatments for hepatitis C in prison
Carton: Initially, we had problems caring for patients with hepatitis C
The public authorities have taken stock of the problem
a general practitioner can prescribe hepatitis C treatment
We collect the treatment monthly and issue them to patients daily or weekly
we give them their medication and their prescription
Problems arise when an inmate is released sooner than expected
we find ourselves having to adapt and tweak our procedures
we tend to treat people who we know are going to spend 2 or 3 months in our center
published a bombshell book on healthcare in prisons
Carton: At the time she was working in prisons
care was dispensed by doctors who answered to the prison's administrative department
medical provision in the prison service has switched to the care of the department for health
for the past few years we've found ourselves going backwards: we have fewer resources
and the "safety above all" attitude is affecting how we work
Let's just say that the health department is less vocal than the justice department
we've been under pressure to examine inmates in the presence of wardens
even though we're inside a prison and our units are organized so that medical confidentiality is respected
but it's an ongoing battle that is becoming tiresome
Medscape: As chair of the French association of healthcare professionals working in the prison service
we'd like to educate people on how we work
and receive sufficient resources to fulfill our roles
My colleagues and I are all convinced that if we complete our mission of care correctly
we'll also be able to carry out our other mission of promoting and educating about healthcare
It's something that we can't measure or profit from immediately
but it's important for those being released from prison
For example, in our detention center, we have a smoking rate of 70%. Outside the prison walls, this figure is 30%. So, education about smoking is a huge factor. Another example is our diabetic patients, who all have poorly controlled blood sugar levels. Some have reached a glycated hemoglobin level of 12%
We need the resources to provide healthcare education
but unfortunately there just aren't enough of us
This article was translated from the Medscape French edition.
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After photographing civil servants in eight countries across five continents for his book, Bureaucratics, Jan Banning thought looking at criminal justice systems around the world seemed like a logical next step. In his new book, Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice
which will be released in the United States this fall
the Dutch photographer brings readers up close to prisons
“I’m interested in these aspects of society that are vital but not necessarily considered to be picturesque,” he said
it’s an attempt to visually cope with the question of how we handle crime
I think it always makes tremendous sense to compare different societies as I’ve done with Bureaucratics because
the character of a specific society comes out.”
After discussing which countries to focus on with the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law
Banning started his investigation with a trip to Uganda in 2010
he was given access to a handful of prisons
and on subsequent visits he was able to visit 10 prisons of various security levels
his guide tended to be just a single unarmed warden or assistant
which was indicative of environments he found to be “rather friendly and rather humane.”
maybe this is a PR exercise and they’re just doing this for me.’ But I noticed it in all 10 prisons I was in
and some were tiny local prisons where you wouldn’t expect the personnel to have any idea of PR
the prisons there are still not a place where you’d love to be
half the prison population hasn’t been on trial
and some have been sitting there without charges for five or six years.”
Uganda’s open system allowed him to get some of the more colorful photographs in the book
tended to be a lot less visually interesting than those in Uganda
but Banning said he embraced the sterility in his photographs and thought it was important to communicate it in “a fair and relevant way.”
“I think this debate is incredibly important in the U.S
but I think the way crime is handled here in Europe is not as exaggerated as it is in the U.S
and the number of people involved in the U.S
promised Banning access to several prisons with “some limitations,” he said his experience there was frustrating
as the agency tried to turn him into “an unpaid propagandist” by not allowing him to photograph cells in high-security prisons and limiting his views largely to amenities such as gardens and education centers
he stormed out of one tour through a women’s prison and ended his relationship with INPEC
“In the other countries dealt with in this book – France
– I was able to produce a more or less fair and balanced series of photos
I have to clearly admit that I have fallen victim to INPEC’s censorship,” he wrote in Law & Order
after years seeing vastly different prisons and criminal justice systems
was a skepticism about the effectiveness of prisons in handling criminals
“You see lots and lots of people more or less rotting away
and some manage to turn their prison time into something sensible
but for a lot of them they’re just sitting there
and I don’t think it makes much sense for them
“Not that I’m so arrogant as to say I know what the solution is
But I hope this book contributes to people thinking about it,” he added
Banning will mark the U.S. release of Law & Order with an event with photo editor and curator Elisabeth Biondi at the Bronx Documentary Center on Sept
France's Arnaud Demare (R) celebrates as he crosses the finish line ahead of France's Julian Alaphilippe (L) at the end of the 148,5km first stage of the 75th edition of the Paris-Nice cycling race
Arnaud Démare (FDJ) won the first stage of this year's Paris-Nice ahead of Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors) in a chaotic day in northern France
Arnaud Démare (FDJ) beat Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors) in a two-man sprint on a frenetic stage one of Paris-Nice
Despite a mass sprint being expected in northern France
no such thing materialised as rain and crosswinds affected the opening stage of this year's race from the start
André Greipel (Lotto-Soudal) and Marcel Kittel (Quick-Step Floors) were both dropped in the final two kilometres from the lead group of 20 riders
and when Alaphilippe launched his move in the final 1,500m on an uphill section
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Paris-Nice is billed as "The Race to the Sun" and when riders converged in a wet and windy Bois-d'Arcy this morning, the moniker took on a literal meaning
Four riders - Sylvain Chavanel (Direct Energie)
Gatis Smukulis (Delko Marseille Provence KTM) and Kristijan Koren (Cannondale-Drapac) - teamed up for the day's breakaway
stretching an advantage of six minutes with 40km covered
Further back were pre-race favourites
Simon Yates (Orica-Scott) and Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale)
The lead chasers caught the breakaway and together the 26 riders drove an unrelenting pace
while despite the efforts of Tony Martin (Katusha-Alpecin) and Jarlinson Pantano (Trek-Segafredo) specifically
the second group on the road were unable to mount a strong enough response to bridge the gap
As the distance to go marker read five kilometres
the advantage for the lead group - by which point had distanced a few riders
owning to the speed and conditions - was 45 seconds
But the expected sprint began to unravel when Kittel was dropped on the final rise inside the last two kilometres
As the road continued to incline, Alaphilippe attacked and it was left to he and Démare to contest the finale
Kristoff took the sprint for third place ahead of Philippe Gilbert (Quick-Step Floors)
Henao and Martin both finished in the Kristoff group
Bardet and Ilnur Zakarin (Katusha-Alpecin)
Contador and Yates were a further 17 seconds in arrears
Europe's first WorldTour stage race of the season
continues tomorrow with a flat parcours from Rochefort-en-Yvelines to Amilly
Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Quick-Step Floors at same time
Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin) at 9secs
Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Quick-Step Floors at 4secs
Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin) at 15secs
Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Quick-Step Floors at 16secs
Romain Hardy (Fra) Fortuneo-Vital Concept at 18secs
Dan Martin (Irl) Quick-Step Floors at 19 secs
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LUPIN on Netflix stars Omar Sy (The Intouchables) as Assane Diop
the son of a Senegalese immigrant to France whose father Babakar Diop is wrongfully accused and pressured to confess to the theft of a priceless necklace known as The Queen’s Necklace
the filming locations of LUPIN take the viewer from the most upscale of the upscale to the banlieues where someone like Assane might have grown up
To achieve revenge on the Pellegrini family who framed his father
Assane assumes many identities (and costumes)
The first season is five episodes and it has just been confirmed that a second season has been commissioned
That’s lucky for viewers because the first season ends on a cliffhanger
we still don’t fully have a sense of who Assane is really
the caper is fun and the script attempts to get a bit beyond the blockbustery feel of the heist — addressing
issues of class and race in French society
The New York Times calls LUPIN a international hit that’s a “new twist on a classic French tale.”
If you’re curious about the filming locations for LUPIN
Many of the filming locations are places we’ve covered in our Untapped Paris archives
so enjoy a little trip to Paris through this article
The Louvre is the most prominent filming location in LUPIN
taking place in this famous museum in the heat of Paris
but Assane has gone to work under cover as a janitor so he can prep for the heist
Assane meets with his somewhat estranged wife Claire (played by Ludivine Sagnier)
whom we find out through flashbacks is someone he meets in school
Pellegrini begins to pay for his high-class private school education out of guilt
a restaurant in the 10th arrondisement at the corner of Boulevard Saint-Martin and Rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin
You can see the Porte Saint-Martin
one of the many monumental arches in Paris
It was built in 1874 and is inscribed (translation from the French): “To Louis the Great
and Dutch armies: the Dean of the Guild and the Aldermen of Paris.”
Assane’s closest friend, besides Claire, is Benjamin Ferel, someone he also met at his private school. Ferel helps Assane with his thievery and runs an antiques shop in the large antique market, Les Puces
Les Puces is located just north of Paris in Saint-Ouen and is considered the largest outdoor flea market in the world
it has both outdoor vendors and vendors that have shops
The Pellegrino’s live in a sick mansion in Paris, a type of home you would call a hôtel particulier
The French way is to always value discretion and this is reflected architecturally
with the fanciest homes hidden behind doors and invisible from the public
This is true of the Pellegrino mansion, which is filmed at the Nissim de Camondo Museum near Parc Monceau in the 8th arrondissement not too far from the Arc de Triomphe
There are seen shown on the grounds outside the house
and also on the roof when Assane pilots a drone to get photos of Mr
Through some cloak and dagger moves, including an anonymous letter, Assane arranges to meet Juliette Pellegrino, the daughter of the Pellegrinos in the Jardin du Luxembourg
a grand park in the 6th arrondisement of Paris on the Left Bank
Assane loves panache however and disguises himself as a sandwich delivery worker. He arranges for about a dozen deliveries to come to the same place, which enables his escape when he needs to. Fun fact: The Jardin du Luxembourg has a fun replica of the Statue of Liberty
you see Assane and his father walking next to the Fontaine de l’Observatoire at the south end of the Jardin du Luxumbourg before they encounter Mrs
whose car has stalled but refuses to roll down her window when they try to help her
Pellegrino has her car troubles on the Avenue de l’Observatoire
She’s stopped in front of a building with an interesting lower band frieze of sculptures
That red brick building is the Institute of Art and Archeology
Assane dons another disguise and goes into the town hall in the 3rd arrondisement (a town hall is called a “Marie” in French) to capture the police commissioner
the former Inspector Dumont who was in charge of Assane’s father’s case
they do film at the actual town hall in the third arrondisement
located on Rue Eugène Spuller across from the Square du Temple-Elie Wiesel
But does Assane actually kidnap the commissioner
Assane and his son Raoul walk around Paris together and they hit up places like the Pont des Arts, famous for the love locks and also places near Bastille. One spot along the canal is very close to a filming location used for Emily in Paris
The private school the young Assane attends is also filmed in Yvelines at Andrésy and the banlieue where Assane goes to with his fellow Louvre janitor “friends” is located in Trappes. Another filming location in Lupin is Pantin
a formerly abandoned industrial site that is a veritable street art haven
he sends the police on a wild goose chase to Pantin
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The inclement weather conditions inside the minuscule living quarters came to the judge’s attention when she herself recently visited the prisoner for questioning in the short-stay ‘maison d’arrêt’ at Bois-d’Arcy in the suburbs of Paris
Also present that day was the inmate’s lawyer
who found himself similarly appalled by what he saw: a 9m² cell
a hole in the ceiling with wind and rain passing through it
and a single table and chair between the two beds
there’s a hole [in the ceiling],” Sebag told French radio Europe 1
he has the choice of either getting his face wet as he sleeps
were not the only serious problem with the inmate’s accommodation
The tiny living space appears to have made it impossible for its occupants to do much other than lie in bed all day
who can’t even get up and accomplish day-to-day tasks
it’s unacceptable,” Sebag said
“Between the two beds there’s a space measuring 50 cm²
and two people can’t be in it at the same time
and a little electric stove they made themselves,” he added
things are so cramped in this cell that you have no choice but stay stretched out [in bed] all day,” Sebag concluded
praising the judge’s decision as “courageous” and “extremely rare”
and plans to launch an appeal against the prisoner’s release
France’s prison system has reached something of a crisis point in recent weeks
The Local reported how hundreds of guards and other staff throughout the country had gathered in front of more than 100 correctional facilities to protest
Members of the Ufap-Unsa prison guards union were rebelling against record levels of inmate saturation, along with concerns about staff safety and a lack of resources.
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Do you remember the robber who was airlifted out of a maximum-security prison after his girlfriend hijacked a helicopter with a machine gun? Or Ronald Ryan who escaped out of Pentridge Prison in Victoria?
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A warden patrols in the corridors of the Bois d'Arcy jail on July 8, 2014, near Paris.(AFP)
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FNTR shared an update of the detailed road blockages in place today, 25 January 2025. The original publication is available here (in French), and a machine-translated version below.
Traffic disruptions linked to farmers' protests at 10:00 on 25 January
Convergence of these 3 processions at 11:00 a.m. at the Jeanne Rose de Montchanin roundabout (historic gathering place of the “yellow vests”). Dispersion announced for 3:00 p.m.
A62 Eurocentre: Eurocentre roundabout blocked, A62 entrance/exit closed.
A61: Villefranche-de-Lauragais: since 9:30 a.m., compulsory exit at interchange no. 20 cut in the Carcassonne/Toulouse direction.
N125 : maintenance of the closure of the N125 in both directions of traffic between the Bazert roundabout (commune of Seilhan) and the Labroquère traffic light intersection (commune of Labroquère), with S4 diversion of the PGT Val d'Aran. The N125 PL access is blocked from Spain, for other PL: return to the roundabout in the town of Barbazan;
D30 : at La Majistère, bridge damaged and closed following tire fire. Axis cut.
N164 : axis cut in both directions at the interchange of the commune of Cléden-Poher (Carhaix sector)
N12: cut in both directions near Morlaix (two directions of traffic).
A warden patrols in the corridors of the Bois d'Arcy jail on July 8, 2014, near Paris. (AFP)
Link copiedShareShare articleA Queensland serial rapist has lost an appeal against his ongoing detention, with the Supreme Court in Brisbane ruling he should not be released under a supervision order.
Gary Une Turnbull, 41, was described as the "worst of the worst" when he was convicted in 2002 for three rapes and one attempted rape.
He targeted women who were strangers, at times following them home from train stations.
In 2001, he attacked three women in January, May and June.
The latter of the sexual assaults was extremely violent, with Turnbull breaking the woman's jaw.
The expert evidence was that there are important gaps in the information about Mr Turnbull's motivations and desires, and that more needs to be known.
Turnbull was initially jailed for 20 years but the sentence was later reduced to 13.
He was due for release in June 2014, but that was prevented when former attorney-general Jarrod Bleijie successfully applied for his ongoing detention.
Turnbull lodged an appeal, requesting his release under a supervision order.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld his imprisonment and said he should not be released.
Supreme Court Judge Philip Morrison said Turnbull had not completed a High Intensity Sexual Offender Program and there was insufficient information to identify the triggers behind his "disturbing acts of violence".
"The expert evidence was that there are important gaps in the information about Mr Turnbull's motivations and desires, and that more needs to be known before it can be said this risk is one that can be managed, if that was possible at all," Judge Morrison said.
"The unknown factors underlying the violent and severe attacks perpetrated by Mr Turnbull prevented, in my view, the conclusion that adequate protection of the community could be ensured under the supervision order."
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