At least four vehicles belonging to prison officers were burnt down in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, according to our information.
The series no longer stops. Penitentiary establishments were again the target of intimidation on the night of Tuesday, April 16 to Wednesday, April 16. According to our information, at least four vehicles were burnt down, the day after a wave of attacks “contact details” (new window)against French prisons.
The municipalities of Villenoy and Tarascon affected in turn
After a volunteer fire against the parking lot of the National School of Prison Administration (ENAP) Sunday evening, five fire starts throughout France on Monday (new window)And firearm fire on the Toulon penitentiary center, new establishments have been targeted. Three other vehicles were burnt down in Tarascon (Bouches-du-Rhône) at 5:20 am near the detention center.
But that night, an agent was also targeted at his home. According to information from our police-justice service, a vehicle was degraded and burnt down last night, around 2:20 am, in a residential car park in Villenoy (Seine-et-Marne). According to our information, the vehicle belonged to a prison supervisor in Meaux prison. On the spot, the investigators found a bottle filled with petrol, matches and a tag “DDPF”, for “defense of French prisoners” in the building hall. The agent will be received by a psychologist and will be offered a rehousing solution. On her social networks, the president of the Île-de-France region wanted to express her support for the personnel of the prison administration. “Victims of attempted intimidation unworthy by mafia criminal networks that the Republic, through the law against drug drugs”added Valérie Pécresse.
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-The images of the mysterious attacks aimed at French prisons
A series that pushes Gérald Darmanin to describe a “intimidation grave” against prison agents. And through them, the state. “There are obviously people who try to destabilize the state by intimidating it”said the minister of Justice on Europe 1 this Wednesday. “We want to see the state will back up”he argued. “”You have to take things with a lot of firmness, calm and determination. “ If he does not exclude any track, the minister remains convinced that the operation comes from a network of drug traffickers. For him, it would be a response to the new detention regime. “This is the first time that the French state has taken measures at this firm and dangerous point for traffic that these actors have to take a kind of initiatives.”
On Tuesday, the National Anti -terrorist prosecution (PNAT) opened an investigation for association of terrorist criminals, attempted assassination and degradation in organized gang. On images that we have given ourselves, several videos of these facts are broadcast. We see the acts before their commissions: men in a down jacket who set fire to vehicles in the parking lots of the penitentiary centers or the “DDPF” tags commission on the walls.
