What is the latest?
The Minister of Justice of France was challenging on Wednesday after the assailants pointed to cars and a lobby of the building linked to prison staff during the night, the last actions since the weekend.
“Clearly, people are trying to destabilize the state by intimidating it,” Gerald Daranin told the CNEWS/Europe 1 station on Wednesday morning.
Early Wednesday, the assailants set fire to three cars, including one that belongs to a prison guard, in the southern city of Tarascón, said his prosecutor.
The car of another guard who worked in a jail outside Aix-en-Provence, also in the south, was burned out of his home, said a representative of a Wormer Wormer union.
In the Sena-Et-Marne region, near Paris, the “DDPF” letters for “Rights of French prisoners” were scribbled at the entrance of a building where a woman’s prison guard lives, said a police source.
Before that, 21 vehicles had bone graffiti and / / / / or set on fire since Sunday night, a police source said Tuesday night.
Most of the incidents, largely from the burning cars, but also a volume of automatic rifle fired in an entry of the prison near the southern city of Toulon, were recorded during the night from Monday to Tuesday.
So who is behind the attacks?
Investigation is being carried out in attacks since Sunday, but Darmanin has accused people linked to drug trafficking.
“Clearly, people are trying to destabilize the state by intimidating it,” said the CNEWS/Europe 1 station on Wednesday morning.
France Minister of Justice, Gerald Darmanin, talks to the press after his visit from Toulon-La Farlede prison in La Farlede, near Toulon, southern France, on April 15, 2025. (Photo by Miguel Medina / AFP)
“They are doing it because we are against the permissiveness that existed so far in prisons,” he said.
Darmanin and Interior Minister Bruno Retailleu have promised to intensify the fight against drugs and drug -related crime.
Darmanin said he was trying to take energetic measures against the “drug networks that continue to operate from the prison cells.
“They order murders, wash money. They threaten police officers, judges, prison guards and escape,” he said.
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Darmanin leads what he calls a “prison revolution” that aims to block 200 or the most dangerous drug trafficking in France in two high security prisons of this summer.
“We win back because they threaten the state,” Darmanin said. “Because the state yields, there is nothing to protect the French people.”
French prison guards with fear
The attacks aimed at vehicles belonging to the prison guards have left many with fear.
The FO union has asked the government to take measures to improve the protection of the guards, including allowing them to remain anonymity at work and difficult punishments for trapped that intimidate them.
The union mentioned that the videos have been published in the social media sites that show the prison guards and their charges with the apparent objective of spreading fear.
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