French prisons targeted in 'terrorist attack' amid drugs crackdown, minister says

The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office announces that it is taking up the investigation ...

Several prisons and prison car parks have been targeted by fires, tags, and even by fire since Sunday, 13 April. Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin visited Toulon at one of the targeted sites, while the national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office opened an investigation.

French prisons targeted in 'terrorist attack' amid drug crackdown, minister says

PARIS - France's justice minister said on Tuesday gun and arson attacks on at least six prisons around the country were acts of terrorism directed at security officials charged with guarding some of the nation's most hardened crime kingpins. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Over the last two nights, at least six penitentiary establishments have been victims of vehicle fires, or Kalashnikov fire for one of them, without causing any injury.

French prisons targeted in 'terrorist attack' amid drugs crackdown, minister says

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Between Sunday 13 and Tuesday 15 April 2025, several French prisons were the scene of several attacks from the outside. Several cars were set on fire in the vicinity of the establishments, as is the case in Nîmes. The national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office was seized.