All the hypotheses are envisaged, tempered a source close to the file, while the various surveys are coordinated by the National Directorate of the Judicial Police (DNPJ).
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau requested a “without delay” strengthening “the protection of” penitentiary “agents and establishments.
According to the Toulon prosecutor, Samuel Finielz, the door of the Toulon-La Farlède penitentiary center was targeted by “heavy weapon” shots made by “several individuals” arrived on a vehicle.
A dozen sockets have been found and an investigation for “attempted homicide on a person depositary of the public authority” was entrusted to the gendarmerie, according to the magistrate.
Referring to “a coordinated attack” against the grouping of narcotrafiaries in high-security prisons, Bruno Boudon, secretary general of the UFAP-UNSA region, said that seven ball impacts were found on the armored window at the entrance to the establishment and that another crossed a contiguous metal door.