DDFM for “rights of French prisoners”. These four letters were tagged, with red painting, on the door of the Toulon-La Farlède penitentiary center. The prison, which welcomes around 790 detainees, was targeted, overnight from Monday to Tuesday, around 0.40 a.m., by several people who shot heavy weapons on the entrance borrowed by the prison vans. A dozen sockets were discovered on the scene. During the night, other establishments were also the target of attacks which seem to have been coordinated.
In Villepinte, in Seine-Saint-Denis, “individuals entered the penitentiary domain around 10:30 pm and burnt down three vehicles belonging to agents”, indicates to 20 minutes Fabrice Fereault-Gobet, FO Justice delegate within the establishment. “This is the first time it has happened since I have been here. It’s rather new, we didn’t expect it at all, ”he continues. This Tuesday, in the prison passages, his colleagues are “worried, a little tense”. In Valence, in the Drôme, “a hooded person arrived on a scooter and set fire to two cars in the establishment’s car park around 9:30 p.m. They belonged to two young supervisors, ”tells 20 minutes Jérémie Moncelon, also union delegate FO Justice.
“Groups on social networks”
The establishments of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), Aix-Luynes (Bouches-du-Rhône) were also affected by vehicle fires. In Marseille, the DDPF registration was tagged on a dozen cars of the prison administration. The previous night, seven burned in the parking lot of the National School of Penitentiary Administration in Agen. One vehicle was burnt down and another was degraded and sprayed with gasoline around 5 a.m. in the parking lot of Réau prison, in Seine-et-Marne. They belonged to prison agents who were then at work.
“We are not used to seeing this kind of coordinated actions and with a message that was bombed on the door of this prison,” said the Keeper of the Seals during a trip to Toulon-La Farlède prison. “There are groups on social networks, Telegram, Signal, which have been created and which obviously encourage to do these kinds of facts. It is not very well known what it means, there was no claim, “added Gérald Darmanin. Earlier in the day, the Minister of Justice had said on X that these acts were a response from the “narcotrafic” to his decision to bring together the most dangerous prisoners in high -security prisons.
The “probable” track of the ultra left
“This is something that we feared. From the moment we make a turn to 180 degrees and that we reinforced the safety of penitentiary establishments, we knew that there was chances that there were reprisals ”, explains to 20 minutes Christy Nicolas, the secretary general of the Penitentiary Surveillant Syndicat (SPS). “The uniform no longer scares banditry. Whether it is the police or us, it is an attack on the state that we represent, ”he continues.
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But according to our information, the police favor the track of the ultra left. “It’s likely”, breathes a source close to the file. A sign that the case is taken very seriously by the authorities, the national anti -terrorist prosecution seized the investigation. The investigations were entrusted to the SDAT (anti-terrorist sub-directorate of the judicial police), local services and the DGSI.
