French police picks up 25 suspects for attacks on prisons

The French police arrested 25 people on Monday on suspicion of involvement in dozens of attacks on prisons and prison employees who have taken place throughout France in recent days. French media report that. A few hundred agents participated in the investigation into the attacks.

In ten days at least 65 attacks took place on French prisons or property of prison staff. The first attack was on April 13. Dozens of cars from prison guards were set on fire. The perpetrators threw Molotov cocktails into the homes of prison staff, front doors set fire to and shots with a Kalashnikov at the entrance of a prison in Toulon. As far as we know, there were no injuries.

The unknown group behind the attacks calls itself ‘DDPF’. That would stand for ‘defense of French prisoners’. That name appeared for the first time in Graffiti on 13 April, in addition to seven cars set on fire for a training institute for prison staff.

Drug crime

According to the authorities, it is probably « organized crime. » The perpetrators would be drug criminals who rebelled against the stricter approach to drug crime of the French government. « It is not they who declared us the war, » said the Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau earlier. « We are who declared them war with our new law on drug trafficking. They know that we will hit their wallets. »

The ruling of the French minister is supported by information from police sources, according to the French medium Franceinfo. The police would, among other things, have taken a member of the drug gang DZ Mafia from Marseille from his cell and arrested. According to one of those sources, he is suspected of being one of the clients of the attacks. According to another source, at least four of the suspects would be members of DZ Mafia. Among the suspects would also be minors.

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