(In the book, Hamidou, the chief guard, is killed in 1973 by a recently-paroled prisoner, who spots him drinking tea at a café outside the prison and shoots him eight times.)
U stvarnosti, Hamidou (voditelj zatvora) ubijen je 1973. godine od strane bivšeg zatvorenika koji ga je vidio kako pije čaj u jednom kafiću; upucao ga je osam puta.