Several French prisons were targeted by attacks on the night of Monday to Tuesday. Vehicles were burnt down in front of penitentiary establishments and that of Toulon was targeted by automatic weapon fire. The national anti -terrorist prosecution opens an investigation.
In Toulon, southern France, fifteen impacts were noted on the prison door after a “heavy weapon attack, of Kalashnikov type”, around midnight and a half. In Seine-Saint-Denis, near Paris, three vehicles, including two belonging to prison agents, were burned in the parking lot of the Villepinte prison.
Fires also took place in Nanterre, Valence, Marseille, and Nîmes with certain vehicles tagged beforehand, as well as in the parking lot of the National School of Penitentiary Administration.
The FO union denounces “a frontal attack against the Republic, and against the agents who serve it daily” and requires “a strong, immediate and unambiguous response of the state”. The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, asked for a strengthening of the security of establishments and their agents. The Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, went to Toulon Tuesday afternoon to support agents on the spot.
Link with the policy of fighting drug drugs
These attacks could have a link with the policy of the Minister of Justice, according to him. He writes on X: “The Republic is confronted with drug trafficking and takes measures that will deeply disturb the criminal networks”. This is an allusion in particular to its project to harden the prison regime of the largest drug traffickers in Italian fashion.
The national anti -terrorist prosecution (PNAT) announced Tuesday to take up the investigation into these attacks.
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