Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin wants “clean cut” operations in prisons

Invited to the TF1 news this Thursday, December 26, the new Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, announced that he wanted to “clean up” the penitentiary centers.

“Be firmer and more intense”. These are the watchwords of Gérald Darmanin. Three days after his appointment to the Ministry of Justice, the new Minister of Justice announced, this Thursday, December 26 on TF1, that he wanted to decline “clearance” operations in prisons, thanks to more restrictive measures. A system similar to the one he put in place against deal points while he was Minister of the Interior.

“First of all, we have to imagine 'clean up' operations in the prisons. That's what I'm going to ask the prison administration, to be able to clean up,” he said.

Concretely, “people must not have cell phones in prisons, continue to be very present, to prevent this and to condemn those who do it,” he said.

Towards a blurring of penitentiary centers?

Gérald Darmanin also felt that it was necessary to think “very quickly about technical solutions” to jam the mobile networks of “all prison centers”, without affecting communications between officers.

The new Minister of Justice visited the Liancourt penitentiary center (Oise) on Wednesday evening. He took the opportunity to reiterate his desire to “cleanse the prisons of all the difficulties that prison officers experience”. Prison centers must no longer be “a place for the reproduction of crime”, he said. The new minister, however, refrained from any details on specific measures.