Several penal establishments have been the subject of vehicle fires and that of Toulon was targeted by automatic weapon fire in the night from Monday to Tuesday, the entourage of Gérald Darmanin said. The Keeper of the Seals must go in the afternoon to the Toulon penitentiary center to support agents on site.
According to a source close to the file, “All this seems coordinated and manifestly in connection with the strategy against the Narcobanditism of the Minister“.
Three vehicles, including two belonging to prison agents, were burnt down on Monday evening in the parking lot of the Villepinte prison (Seine-Saint-Denis), according to a police source.
According to another 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.
In the Toulon-La Farlède prison center (Var), 15 impacts were noted on the establishment’s door after one “Heavy, Kalashnikov type attack“Said FO Justice on X.