Approaches and shots on prisons in France

Approaches and attacks with firearms were committed to several prisons in France at night. At least six detention centers have become the goal of attempts at intimidation, which ranged from cars to shots with automatic weapons, said Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin. The anti-terrorist prosecutor had taken over the investigation, the minister said when visiting the Toulon prison in southern France. There was no question of injuries.

The minister suspects a coordinated reaction of organized drug crime behind the attacks, which France has announced the fight on various fronts. There were previously threats to two prison locations where high -security prisons for convicted drug bosses are to be set up, said Darmanin. Prevention measures there had driven the perpetrators to attack other prisons, « to intimidate us. » The judiciary cannot be intimidated.

Anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office is investigated

The attacks were also affected by prisons in Valence, Nanterre and Villepinte, as the Minister of Justice said. There, cars from the prison staff were set on fire and there were threats to their suspected apartments. Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau spoke of « unacceptable attacks on employees and ownership of the prison authorities ».

The Minister of Justice recently announced the construction of high -security prisons, in which all convicted severe drug criminals of France are to be accommodated. It should be the end of the practice that serious criminals also had mobile phones behind bars despite the ban on and continued their machinations up to murder murders from the cell. In addition, a law is in France that enable a harder to take action against drug trafficking and at the same time prevent organized crime from infiltrating state structures.