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France submits the investigation of prison attacks to the public prosecutor's office for crime

A prison guard can be seen in the Tarascon prison near Avignon, France, April 16, 2025. Reuters/Manon Cruz/FileToto

France's anti-terrorist prosecutors announced on Friday that they will submit the investigation to 30 people associated with a number of prison attacks, whereby the actions of the suspects “in the scope of the larger organized crime” and not in the scope of severe organized crime “and not terrorism.

At least 10 French prisons were attacked over five separate nights in April. Automatic weapons were fired in prisons, cars were lit in prison parking spaces, and the officials were intimidated in their houses.

Although the government's ministers said that the attacks had probably been triggered by an advance of passing gangsters, which lead their drug imperies behind bars, the French public prosecutor's office quickly took responsibility for the probe.

On Friday, however, the PNAT said: “It does not seem that these coordinated actions are due to a terrorist company … no radical violent ideology, no foreign interference, both leads that were deeply examined.”

The PNAT said that 30 people were arrested for alleged participation in the attacks. Seven already served in prison and four were minors. Seven were then published, it said.

Identified telegram group

The PNAT said that the investigators had identified the alleged creator of the “Ddpf” group or “French prisoners” in telegram, which it said to defend the attacks and the rails against the conditions for those behind bars.


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It was said that the person was a convicted inmate who was waiting for the process in a drug band test, with alleged connections to Marseila's powerful and rapidly expanded DZ mafia gang.

The DDPF day was impressed in many attacked prisons, and the PNAT claimed that the DDPF telegram group had been used to order the hits, and the work for small criminals to execute them in a usual way.

In view of the alleged connections to the organized crime, the PNAT said that it had handed over the investigation to the organized office for organized crime of the public prosecutor in Paris.

The prison attacks have underlined France's growing problems with organized crimes. This week, the legislators approved a comprehensive law on the opposite anesthesia to equip the state with harder instruments in order to combat a strong increase in drug crime after a record -breaking increase in South American cocaine to Europe.

Among other things, the new law will set up a national public prosecutor for organized crime for organized crime and isolate dangerous royal books in prisons.

(With entries from Reuters)


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