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Prisons: new degradations, targeted staff
New degradations targeted the penitentiary institution on Wednesday, notably with the fire of three vehicles in a secure parking lot in Tarascon prison, an attempt at “destabilization” denounced by the minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin. These new incidents come the day after the coordinated actions against several penitentiary establishments in France, mainly fire fires, but also From Toulon prison (Var), which did not make a victim. Now at 05:20 Wednesday, three vehicles were burnt down in front of Tarascon prison (Bouches-du-Rhône), in an “isolated, reserved, wireless parking lot and secure access by a Digicode”, told AFP the Public Prosecutor of Tarascon, Laurent Gumbau. Included in the referral to the national anti -terrorist prosecution, which has investigated all the facts that have occurred since Sunday, said the magistrate.- Mysterious inscriptions – one of the vehicles belonged to a prison agent on service, another to a company involved in the detention center, and the third, completely destroyed, had not yet been identified, according to the prosecutor, evoking at least two On the scene, he said. When the actions have been listed since Sunday, during which at least 21 vehicles were tagged and ordered, according to a police source, mysterious “DDPF” inscriptions, apparently for “defense of the rights of French prisoners” were found, as well as “DDFM” inscription on the Toulon prison. A supervisor from Aix-Luynes prison was burnt down in the night of Tuesday to Wednesday before the home of the home, Jessy Zagari, regional FO prison delegate, majority union in the PACA region, told AFP. “This DDPF terrorist group identifies and targets penitentiary personnel,” he said, denouncing “threats of threat and intimidation”. An other event that seems to confirm another event listed on Wednesday morning, with “DDPF” inscriptions found tagged in the building hall of a prison supervisor incendiated in Seine-et-Marne Police. “There are obviously people who try to destabilize the state by intimidating,” denounced the Keeper of the Seals Gérald Darmanin on CNews/Europe 1, by evoking the Tarascon incident. However, “there would have been no new blue night as we saw yesterday, which was obviously absolutely unacceptable”, added the minister, who was on Tuesday afternoon Toulon prison, to display its support for personnel – concern of penitentiary agents -M. Darmanin notably considered that these attacks could be a reply to his special detention regime project for the largest drug traffickers in the country, which must be grouped to strict isolation in high security establishments. This succession of acts creates a climate of fear and concern among the prison agents interviewed by AFP. “This is the first time of my career that Pay attention to what is happening in the parking lot, “testified to AFP a supervisor in the north of France practicing for 22 years. Identify” when I go home, I closed on “, testified this 47 -year -old woman, who required anonymity for reasons of security and expresses her” doubt about the ability of the State to ensure our safety “. “Things much more difficult to digest,” adds one of his colleges, aged 34. Emmanuel Baudin, secretary general of the FO-Justice union, denounced videos on Wednesday “who circulate on Telegram and show agents, mailboxes, the supervisors are named and these videos target” rather agents in the southern region ” Large groups of narcotrafiaries. On this channel, the group supports, in a text full of spelling mistakes, that it will unfold “throughout France” and affirms: “We are not terrorists”, but “there to defend human rights within prisons”. These threats come almost a year after the death of two penitentiary agents during the bloody escape of Mohamed Amra, but also after several assaults of supervisors, sometimes at their home.
