The anti -orism office launches an investigation into shooting attacks and a caused fire that is believed to be linked to drug gangs.
The Anti -Terrorism Office of France has launched an investigation after unknown assailants carried out a wave of attacks against prisons throughout the country.
Multiple incidents were recorded during the night and until Tuesday, with prisons attacked with automatic shots and attacks with fires caused against cars. The perpetrators of the attacks have not identified bone, but government officials indicated that they follow an intensified repression against the crimes of drug gangs, including record seizures of smuggling cocaine of South America.
The authorities reported that the vehicles were burned outside prisons throughout the country, even near Paris. A prison was shot in the southern city of Toulon.
An unidentified source told the AFP news agency that the series of attacks “seemed to have been coordinated and is clearly linked to the anti -drug gang strategy.”
France’s National Prosecutor’s Office of the Prosecutor’s Office said Tuesday that he has tasks of the investigation into attacks.
The country’s national DGSI security agency will also participate in the investigation, said the prosecutor.
The Minister of Justice, Gerald Darmanin, who has led the efforts to harden prison security and take energetic measures against gangsters who direct their empires after bars, “attempts have made the leg to intimidate staff in several prisons.”
“The French Republic faces the problem of drug trafficking and is massively attenuating criminal networks,” he wrote a lot, adding that he goes to Toulon to support interested officers.
Three vehicles, two belonging to the prison staff, were set on fire in the parking lot of Vilepinte’s prison north of Paris, a police source told AFP. A fuel boat was found on the site, and the images of the security chamber showed two people who set fire to cars.
The vehicles parked outside three other prisons, one near Paris and two in southern France, were also burned, said another police source.
Fifteen bullet impacts were found at the main door of the prison in Toulon after an attack with an assault weapon of “Kalashnikov type,” said the prison personnel union for justice.
Wilfried Fonck, National Secretary of the UFAP UNNA Justice Union, said the prison system did not have enough personnel to ensure imprisonment “24/7”.
Interior Minister Bruno Retilleaour said he had ordered the authorities to intensify the protection of personnel and prisons immediately.