Attackers focused a jail close to the French port metropolis of Toulon in a single day Monday to Tuesday, burning automobiles and firing pictures at its partitions, French authorities and a union mentioned on Tuesday, including that this was a part of a collection of assaults on the nation’s prisons.
There have been no stories of casualties. A union for jail staff, FO Justice, posted photos on X, previously Twitter, of bullet holes in jail partitions, saying that prisons had been attacked within the north, middle and south of the nation.
The workplace of France’s counterterrorism prosecutor mentioned it will start an investigation into the violence, which it mentioned began on Sunday. The justice minister, Gérald Darmanin, mentioned he would go to the Toulon-La Farlède jail on Tuesday in help of the officers there.
Mr. Darmanin urged that drug traffickers had organized the assaults. The French newspaper Le Monde mentioned the assaults have been coordinated and talked about other incidents in Villepinte and Nanterre, each suburbs of Paris; Valence, a metropolis in southern France; and the southern port metropolis of Marseille.
“Prisons are going through intimidation makes an attempt starting from the burning of automobiles to automated gunfire,” Mr. Darmanin mentioned in a put up on social media. “The republic is confronted by drug trafficking and can take measures that can massively disrupt these prison networks.”
France’s inside minister, Bruno Retailleau, condemned the attacks, saying the prisons had been focused by thugs, and ordered the authorities to strengthen safety at prisons and shield their staff.
France’s official prison watchdog warned in 2023 of overcrowding, unsanitary circumstances and violence within the nation’s prisons.
