The Debate - Who’s attacking France's prisons?

The Debate - Who’s attacking France's prisons?

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…

While several prisons have been targeted in recent days, "CheckNews" has consulted the social accounts of the mysterious group "Defence of the rights of French prisoners", which multiplies the publications claiming.

The acronym "DDPF", of the French prisoners' rights group, was noticed, on the ground, near the carcases of cars burned in front of the Enap of Agen. It was also observed in front of the other prisons...

Three vehicles belonging to prison staff were set on fire early Wednesday, 16 April, in front of Tarascon prison. The anti-terrorist prosecutor ' s office had seized as early as Tuesday 15th of the investigation into a series of attacks against several prisons, accompanied by anarchist slogans.

Coordinated attacks against prisons in recent days have been claimed by a newly created group called "Defence of the Rights of French Prisoners" (DDPF).

After a series of degradations aimed at several prisons and agents in France since Sunday, Jean-Louis Picornell, delegate Ufap-Unsa Justice at the detention centre in Roanne (Loire), said he was worried but did not want to dramatize, because for the moment it remains only "material".