US EditionFrance Confirms €400M High-Security Prison in French Guiana Despite Local Backlash
- France confirmed plans to build a €400 million high-security prison in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana, announced by Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin on Sunday.
- The project responds to prison overcrowding and rising drug trafficking threats in French Guiana, a major cocaine transit point bordering Suriname and Brazil.
- The new facility near the historic Devil's Island penal colony in French Guiana is designed to accommodate up to 500 prisoners, with 60 of them held in high-security conditions, including individuals such as drug lords and radical Islamists.
- Darmanin said the prison aims to end dangerous criminals' influence by severing their contact with networks, adding the complex will feature a strict regime and an onsite court.
- The prison could open by 2028 and reflects France's effort to provide overseas territories the same security level as mainland, amid local concerns recalling the penal colony's harsh history.
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