President Emmanuel Macron warned on Wednesday, April 16 that the assailants behind a wave of coordinated fire fires and shooting attacks against French prisons would be “found, judged and punished.”
In a series of attacks that have put the government to the limit, unknown assailants have hit Sincey several prisons and facilities throughout France, burning cars, spraying the entry of an increase. The authorities said early Wednesday that the assailants had attacked cars and a lobby of the building linked to prison staff in new attacks during the night.
“Some are trying to intimidate our prison staff and the attack facilities with implosible violence,” Macron said in X. “They will be found, judged and punished,” he said, extending their “total support” to employees of the Ministry of Justice. Macron said prison officials carried out “an essential mission of defending the rule of law and public peace, with courage and dedication.”
The Office of the National Anti -Terror Prosecutor leads an investigation into the attacks, and the Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin accused people linked to drug trafficking for being responsible. “Clearly, people are trying to destabilize the state by intimidating it,” said the CNEWS/Europe 1 station. “They are doing it because we are heard against the permissiveness that has existed so far in prisons.”
Darmanin and Interior Minister Bruno Retailleu have promised to intensify the fight against drugs and drug -related crime. 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. A bill against drug -related crime will be used for a vote in Parliament at the end of the months.
Early Wednesday, the assailants set fire to three cars, including one that belongs to a prison guard, in the parking lot of a prison in the southern city of Tarascón, said his prosecutor. The automobile of another guard who worked in a prison outside Aix-en-Provence, also in the south, was burned outside his home, said a representative of a union of prison workers and the office of the anti-terrorist prosecutor.
In the department of Sena-Et-Marne near Paris, someone scribbled the “DDPF” letters, for owner of “French prisoners’ rights, and tried to start a fire at the entrance of a woman from the prison of the prison lives, said a police source. Until Tuesday, 21 vehicles had bone graffiti or caught fire, said a police source. Most incidents were recorded during the night from Monday to Tuesday. The inscription “DDPF” appeared in almost all places, except the prison near Toulon, where the assailants left the mysterious acronym “DDFM”.
‘Fundamental rights’
A group that called himself “DDPF” on Telegram on Wednesday published a video that shows a prison guard that came out of a car, then trembling images of a card box, approaching the name. The video, seen by Agance France-Presse before Telegram eliminated it, ends with the “DDPF” lyrics in the context of a burning car in front of a building at night. The account, created on Saturday, has more than 1,000 followers.
The group described ITELF as “a movement dedicated to denouncing violations of the fundamental rights that Minister Gérald Darmanin intends to violate.” Darmanin told CNews that he was Seijs 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 added.
Last year, the assailants attacked a prison when they took the drug Baron Mohamed Amra in a toll of the road, releasing and killing two prison guards. Since then he has been arrested in Romania and extradited back to France, where he is beer in one of the two high security future prisons.
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