The Interior Minister announces the safety reinforcement in prisons to avoid more incidents
The National Anti -Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office of France on Tuesday has reported the beginning of an investigation for a wave of violent attacks and vehicle fires in the vicinity of several penitentiary institutions throughout the country throughout this morning.
Although on Sunday the fire of several vehicles was recorded in the parking lot of the National School of Penitentiary Administration of Agen, in southern France, most incidents have occurred throughout this morning, as detailed by the BFMTV news chain.
Specifically, in the parking lots of the prisons of Bocas del Rhone and Drome, intentional fires were produced in several more vehicles; While in the immediate vicinity of Toulon’s prison there was a shooting in which he was shot at the entrance door of the jail.
Sources of the aforementioned television network have reported that Penitentiary Centers of Nanterre, Vilepinte, Marseille and Nimes have also been affected and, although more details are unknown, everything indicates that it could be a coordinated attack in response to the policies against drug trafficking.
The Interior Minister of France, Bruno Retailleau, has released a message on his social networks where he has condemned the “unacceptable attacks against the staff and properties of the penitentiary administration”; In addition, he has announced that he has instructed to reinforce prison security.
“I want to express my support to prison officials who have been attacked by thugs. The state’s response must be relentless. Those who attack the prisons and their officials must be locked in those same prisons and monitored by those officials,” said Retilleau.
These incidents take place in a context marked by the decision of the French Justice Minister, Gérald Darmanin, to build two maximum security prisons that it is estimated that next July they can already host a hundred of the main drug traffickers operating in the country.
The Minister of Justice has condemned the “attempts to intimidate” registered in the last hours in the prisons and has announced that he will travel to Toulon to show his support for the agents involved. “The Republic faces drug trafficking and is taking measures that will dismantle the Crimianles networks,” he said.