The mystery always hovers around prison attacks. Vehicles burned in a parking lot in Tarascon prison, a house of buried building in the Paris region, the penitentiary institution was the target of new degradations on Wednesday. All tracks are explored to find the members of the “DDPF” group, for “defense of the rights of French prisoners”, including that of manipulation from abroad, according to a police source.
Despite the vagueness that still surrounds the events, Emmanuel Macron promised on Wednesday that individuals who “seek to intimidate” prison agents and “attack inadmissible violence” in prisons would be “found, judged and punished”.
“I reaffirm to all our agents from the Ministry of Justice my total support and that of the nation”, said on network X The Head of State, welcoming the “courage” and the “dedication” of the penitentiary supervisors, who accomplish “an essential mission of defense of the rule of law and public peace”.
A raised police custody
On a Telegram canal, claiming the “defense of the rights of French prisoners”, the group maintains that it will unfold “throughout France” and affirms: “We are not terrorists”, but “there to defend human rights within prisons”.
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A man was arrested Tuesday evening in Essonne, according to the Evry prosecution. He is suspected of having relayed a message on Telegram to commit degradations but he is not suspected at this stage of being linked to the mysterious DDPF group. His police custody has been lifted and “investigations are continuing,” said the prosecution.
