To do this, the Minister of Justice intends to empty this establishment of the people currently there. Its objective is to “show that when you are in prison and you are a big drug trafficker you cannot make phone calls and you cannot have a good life”.
The “one hundred biggest drug traffickers” who continue their criminal activity from their cells will be isolated in “a high security prison” in the summer, the Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin announced this Sunday, January 12 on LCI.
“We are going to take a French prison, we are going to empty it of the people who are there and we will put there, since we will have it totally isolated, totally secure with particularly trained, anonymized prison officers” the “hundred biggest drug traffickers”, developed the Keeper of the Seals, without specifying what this penitentiary establishment would be.
“Today we isolate certain traffickers among other prisoners and we can clearly see that this system, if I dare say, of diversity, does not work,” he justified, citing in particular the prisoners who can telephone in prison.
Not having “a good life”
According to Gérald Darmanin, not all detainees are “equally dangerous” and “we do not all adapt them to security in the same way”.
The objective for the minister is to “show that when you are in prison and you are a major drug trafficker, you cannot make telephone calls and you cannot have a pleasant life”. For this, the Ministry of Justice tells BFMTV that there will be, for example, a jamming system which will prevent prisoners from communicating with each other, regular searches or even anti-drone control around the prison.
For this project, Gérald Darmanin said he currently had “two prisons in mind”. “We will start by isolating the first 100” largest drug traffickers, “then we will do the next 200, then (again) the next 200…”, he explained.
According to the minister’s entourage contacted by BFMTV this Sunday, this list of 100 drug traffickers was established by joint work between the police and gendarmerie services and also on the basis of elements of prison intelligence.
