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

[Susannah]

• Attacks include automatic weapons fire, vehicle arson, threats to staff
• Anti-terrorism prosecutors to lead investigation
• Justice Minister Darmanin vows support
• Cocaine influx fuels crime, new anti-drug laws proposed

PARIS, April 15 (Reuters) - 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.

Visiting Toulon prison in southern France, whose entrance was shot at with an AK-47 automatic rifle, Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin said he could not be sure if the attacks were linked to government efforts to clamp down on France's fast-growing drug trade.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/several-french-prisons-have-come-under-attack-says-justice-minister-2025-04-15/

‘Drug-dealing scum’ most likely behind French prison attacks​

Unknown criminals have targeted nine jails across the country since Monday, spraying walls and entrance gates with gunfire from automatic weapons and setting fire to facilities and staff cars.

‘Drug-dealing scum’ most likely behind French prison attacks

“Drug-dealing scum” are behind a series of mysterious and co-ordinated gun and arson attacks on French prisons, the county’s interior minister suggested on Thursday.

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Looks like gun control isn’t working.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

There is one effective method of gun control, but it will never happen as long as there is profit in manufacturing guns.

 

[Susannah]

Some seem to think it’s terrorists. I suppose it could be either drug dealers or foreign terrorists trying to break their friends out. I’m surprised the Mexican cartels aren’t doing that here.

 

[Don Alaska]

Many of the immigrants to France believe they are outside the law, just as most of the illegals here do. I don't believe automatic weapons are legal in France either, so gun control doesn't work there either.