Several French prisons targeted by vehicle fire and fire

The anti -terrorist prosecutor’s office took over the investigation into a series of attacks on Tuesday aimed at several penal establishmentstargeted since Sunday by fire fires and shots in Toulon, acts sometimes accompanied by anarchist slogans.

Following the facts between Sunday and Tuesday targeting different prisons and theNational School of Penitentiary Administration (ENAP), “the national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office seizes the investigation,” he said in a statement.

This is entrusted to the anti-terrorist sub-directorate of the judicial police, local services and the Directorate general of Internal Security.

According to the first elements of the investigation, the anarchist track seems to take precedence in the vast majority of the facts, a source close to the file told AFP.

Minister expected in the center of Toulon

Denouncing “attempts at intimidation”, the Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin is expected in the afternoon at the Toulon penitentiary center, targeted by fire, to support agents on the spot.

“The Republic is confronted with drug trafficking and takes measures that will deeply disturb the criminal networks,” said the Keeper of the Seals on X. “It is challenged and will be firm and courageous.”

All hypotheses are envisaged, tempered a source close to the file in the morning.

Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau requested a “without delay” strengthening of “the protection of agents and establishments” penitentiary “.

“Several individuals” who arrived aboard a vehicle

According to the Toulon prosecutor, Samuel Finielz, the door of the Toulon-La Farlède penitentiary center was targeted by “heavy weapon” shots made by “several individuals” arrived on a vehicle.

A dozen sockets have been found and an investigation for “attempted homicide on a person depositary of the public authority” was entrusted to the gendarmerie, according to the magistrate.

Bruno Boudon, secretary general of UFAP-UNSA for the PACA region, said that seven ball impacts had been found on the armored window at the entrance to the establishment and that another had crossed a contiguous metal door.

In addition, during the night of Monday to Tuesday in Marseille, “10 penitentiary vehicles were tagged from the inscription” DDPF “(rights of French prisoners),” said the president of the Bouches-du-Rhône department, Martine Vassal (LR).

In Toulon, a large orange -red acronym comprising the mysterious “DDFM” letters was registered on the gray door by which the prison vranges enter and released, an AFP journalist noted.

In the parking lot of the Villepinte prison (Seine-Saint-Denis), three vehicles, including two belonging to prison agents, were burned on Monday evening, according to a police source. A five -liter hydrocarbon can have been found on site.

“These criminal acts are a frontal attack”

The video surveillance images made it possible to see the two authors penetrating into the enclosure via an earth hill, each burning a vehicle, the third being reached by propagation.

At the Aix-Luynes penitentiary center, the door of the base of the attachment center for judicial extractions and the Regional Intervention and Security team (Prej-Eris) was burnt down, according to a source close to the file.

“These criminal acts are a frontal attack against our institution, against the Republic, and against the agents who serve it on a daily basis,” denounced the FO Justice union, demanding “a strong, immediate and unambiguous response of the state”.

“We are waiting for an action coordinated by the Ministers of Justice and the Interior,” said AFP Wilfried Fonck, national secretary of UFAP UNSA Justice, stressing that the prison administration had “not the human forces to ensure security near the establishments 24 hours a day”.

“Seven vehicles were” destroyed or degraded “

During the night from Sunday to Monday, fires also affected the Penitentiary Center of Réau (Seine-et-Marne) and the parking lot of the National School of Penitentiary Administration (ENAP) in Agen, according to several sources close to the file. In Agen, a 43 -year -old suspect was briefly placed in police custody.

Seven vehicles were “destroyed or degraded due to a fire” in the ENAP car park, according to the local prosecutor’s office. The prosecutor Olivier Naboulet judged that it was “too early to generate specific avenues, including the motivation of the perpetrator (s)”.

According to a police source, the establishments of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), Aix-Luynes (Bouches-du-Rhône) and Valence (Drôme) were also affected by vehicle fires, some of which had been tagged beforehand.

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