Since last Friday, nightly attacks against penintentiary gates, parking lots, even the homes of prison guards. A hitherto unknown group has claimed responsibility over the social medium Telegram but it’s early days for investigators. We’ll ask whodunnit…
… and the context… with the right-wing interior and justice ministers both talking up strongarm tactics to crack down on increasingly violent and emboldened drug gangs…
… gangs who last year shocked France with the deadly ambush on a prison convoy that enabled the getaway of the since recaptured kingpin known as The Fly.
So what to make of plans for two French super prisons for narcos, calls for stiffer sentences for small-time pushers… even one politician’s call for a US-style Guantanamo in France’s North American dependencies of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon? Remember France has some of the most overcrowded prisons in Europe.
Produced by François Picard, Rebecca Gnignati, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip, Alessandro Xenos.
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Yan ST-PIERRE CEO & Counter-terrorism Advisor, Modern Security Consulting Group
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Richard WERLY Correspondent for Blick
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Gabriel STARGARDTER Chief Correspondent for France, Reuters
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Florence LAUFER Director, Prison Insider
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