The project did not take long to complete. The first high security prison for drug traffickers will be “in operation” on July 31, Gérald Darmanin announced this Thursday, during a trip to the national school of penitentiary administration in Agen.
The “100 biggest” drug traffickers in the country, regardless of their detention status, will be transferred from March to this “renovated” establishment. Its location was not specified by the Minister of Justice who promised an “inviolable” place, where it will be “absolutely impossible to have telephones or drugs delivered”. A budget of “four million euros” was released for the establishment of this establishment.
Two more prisons to come
Two others “will be created in the next two years so that the more than 600 people that prison intelligence indicates to us as particularly dangerous in drug banditry can be in the same boat,” added Gérald Darmanin. Currently, 17,000 people are detained for acts linked to drug trafficking and organized crime, according to him.
-“A very large part of them are dangerous, very dangerous,” said the minister, referring to “a significant financial surface, […] high-ranking complicity and now totally uninhibited violence, as demonstrated by the tragedy of Incarville on May 14.” This requires, according to him, to “differentiate the prisoners and therefore the prisons”.
