Attacks on French prisons due to drug fighting

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Last night attacks were committed in several French prisons, in response to the government's efforts, the Drug trade . Highest officials reported on Tuesday of these incidents, while the authorities are faced with a “tsunami” of cocaine that flows into the country.

attacks on prisons across the country

Unknown attackers fired automatic fire on prison in the South Fanzian city of Toulon, while vehicles all over the country set fire to fire and threatened employees. It is still unclear whether the attacks were coordinated and who carried out them.

reactions of the government

Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin, who drives the measures to tighten prison security and to combat gangsters, who lead their empires from behind bars, announced that they were traveling to Toulon. "Attempts have already been made to intimidate the personnel in several prisons, from burning vehicles to shots with automatic weapons," Darmanin wrote on the platform X. "I will travel to Toulon to support the civil servants concerned. The French Republic takes the problem of drug trafficking and takes measures that will massively disrupt the criminal networks."

Security of the prisons is reinforced

Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announced that he instructed the local prefects as well as the police and gendarmerie to increase the protection of staff and prisons immediately. "The reaction of the state must be relentless," he wrote to X. "Those who attack prisons and prison staff should be blocked in these prisons and monitored by these officials."

cocaine and drug violence in France

According to media reports, the contested prisons include institutions in Toulon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, Valence and Nîmes in southern France and Villepinte and Nanterre near Paris. The long -long record imports of Sü -American cocaine to Europe have stimulated the local drug markets and triggered a wave of drug power on the continent.

France is not spared from this development, with record fitting of cocaine and gangs that benefit from the white powder, while they expand their power from traditional strongholds such as Marseille into smaller cities that have so far not been confronted with drug force.

political consequences and measures

The increase in gang crime has increased the support for the right -wing extremist party of national cohesion (racial emblems nationally) and pulled French politics to the right. Darmanin, a former interior minister, and retailleau have prioritized the fight against drug trafficking. In February, when Retailleau announced record fittings of 47 tons of cocaine in the first 11 months of 2024 compared to 23 tons throughout 2023, he spoke of a "white tsunami" that changed the rules of criminal events.

Darmanin proposes a number of measures to tighten prison security, including the isolation of the 100 most dangerous drug bosses in the country. The legislator is also about to adopt a comprehensive new law against drug trafficking, which would create a national public prosecutor's office for organized crime and expand the police's investigative powers in dealing with drug crime.

A ray of hope in the fight against drug crime was the return of Mohamed Amra, a French refugee who is known as "the fly" in February. His escape, when he was transported to a trial by a prison, led to the death of two prison attendants and was evaluated by right -wing politicians as evidence that France has lost control of drug crime.