A number of prisons in France have been hit by a wave of assaults in a single day, the justice minister has mentioned.
Gérald Darmanin mentioned prisons had confronted “intimidation makes an attempt” starting from automobile burning to automated weapon fireplace.
La Parisien experiences that automobiles have been set on fireplace in a number of jail automotive parks, whereas a jail in Toulon was focused by gunshots from an automated weapon.
The newspaper lists six institutions as being focused: in Toulon, Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, Valence and Nîmes, Luynes, Villepinte, and Nanterre.
In a publish on X, Darmanin mentioned he was travelling to Toulon to supply his assist to affected officers.
With out immediately attributing blame for the assaults, he mentioned the French authorities was “dealing with as much as the issue of drug trafficking” and taking measures that will “profoundly disrupt” legal networks.
The jail guard union, FO Justice, expressed its “deepest concern and anger” following the “extraordinarily critical” assaults in a single day.
The union posted updates from the aftermath of a number of assaults on X, together with photos of bullet holes within the Toulon jail home windows, and of burnt-out automobiles in different jail automotive parks.
It referred to as for pressing authorities motion to guard jail employees.