Fort Montluc

The Fort Montluc is a former French prison, currently second Police Presidium of the agglomeration of Lyon and wife Detention Center, located in the third arrondissement of Lyon.

History

The Fort Montluc was built 1831-1835 as a military prison.

During the Second World War

After the engagement of the armed forces in November 1942 in the previously unoccupied southern zone of France ( company Anton ), the Germans requisitioned the prison Montluc. Thousands of men and women, hostages, racist persecution and resistance fighters of the Resistance were here more or less locked up long under inhumane conditions where they had to wait for their deportation or deportation.

Jean Moulin, Raymond Aubrac, Charles Delestraint, André Lassagne, Henri Aubry, Bruno Larat and other members of the Resistance were detained following their arrest in Caluire -et -Cuire on June 21, 1943 here.

On August 24, 1944, the town was freed, but the 109 Jewish Résistants who were there, were abducted on the orders of Klaus Barbie. Two days later they were murdered at l' aérodrome de Bron.

The fort today

In 1947 the fort of the prison service was provided and developed into the " third quarter " in the prisons of Lyons. Up to the present it is used exclusively as a women's prison. Since 1969, the Ministry of Interior since 2005 and it is also home to the second police headquarters agglomeration of Lyon.