Several penal establishments have been the subject of coordinated attacks on the night of Monday to Tuesday, targeted by vehicle fires or by automatic gunfire. The national anti -terrorist prosecution has announced that it be seized of the investigation.
Several penal establishments have been targeted by vehicle fires or automatic weapons on the night of Monday, 14 to Tuesday, April 15. The previous night, seven vehicles had been burnt down in a parking lot from the National School of Prison Administration in Agen. The national anti -terrorist prosecution has announced that it be seized of the investigation.
• A first wave Sunday evening in Agen
On Sunday, April 13, around 11 p.m., seven vehicles were burnt down in the parking lot of the National School of Penitentiary Administration (ENAP) in Agen, said the city’s public prosecutor in a statement.
“The first elements collected made it possible to prioritize the services to a voluntary act”, had detailed Olivier Naboulet specifying that it was however “too early” to generate specific avenues, including on “the motivation of the authors (s)”.
The same night, Nanterre prison (Hauts-de-Seine) was affected with the fire of prison administration vehicles, according to information from BFMTV.
• Coordinated attacks on several prisons
In turn, on the night of Monday, April 14 to Tuesday, April 15, several penitentiary establishments were targeted by automatic gunfire or fires, BFMTV learned from the Ministry of Justice.
In Luynes (Bouches-du-Rhône), vehicles were burned in the establishment’s car park. “DDPF” registrations have been noted on several vehicles, BFMTV learned from a judicial source. In Valence (Drôme), a scooter person set fire to cars in front of the penitentiary center. Vehicles have been degraded and tagged in Marseille. In Nîmes, several cars were also affected, targeted by petrol jets, but the fire did not take.
In Toulon (Var), automatic gunfire targeted the prison door. Fifteen Kalashnikov fire impacts were also noted.
These attacks perpetrated on the national territory have been shown, learned BFMTV from a source close to the file. They would have been planned in reaction to the creation of High security prisonsand more precisely in the face of Gérald Darmanin’s strategy against narcobanditism.
• The national anti -terrorist prosecution seizes the investigation
The national anti -terrorist prosecution announced this Tuesday, April 15 Tuesday, seize the investigation after “a series of events intervened between Sunday, April 13 and Tuesday, April 15, targeting various penal establishments on the national territory, as well as the national school of prison administration”.
The investigation was entrusted to the DCPJ’s anti-terrorist sub-department, the zonal directorates of the national police concerned and the DGSI.
• Gérald Darmanin expected in Toulon
Bruno Retailleau, the Minister of the Interior, reacted to these multiple fires and shots in a publication on his account X. “I firmly condemn these acts, and I gave this night investigation to the prefects, alongside the police and gendarmerie services, to reinforce the protection of agents and establishments without delay.”
“I mean my support for prison administration agents targeted by thugs. The state’s response should be relentless. Those who attack prisons and agents are intended to be locked up in these prisons and monitored by these agents,” he wrote.
The Minister of Justice also expressed himself on X, denouncing “attempts at intimidation”. “The Republic is confronted with drug trafficking and takes measures that will deeply disturb the criminal networks. It is challenged and will be firm and courageous,” said Gérald Darmanin.
The latter is expected at the Toulon penitentiary center this Tuesday afternoon to express themselves on these events and provide support to prison agents.
• “worried” prison unions
The FO Justice union expressed “its most great concern and anger” after the events occurring last night. “FO Justice requires a strong, immediate and unambiguous response of the state”, can be read on a shared publication on X.
“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”.
