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Graffiti on the ground abroad of prison in Nanterre, near Paris, France, April 15, 2025
Several arrests in France were attacked at night from 14 to 15 April. The French anti -terrorist prosecutor is investigating the attacks, along with the National Security Agency.
French anti -terrorism researchers are trying to identify the authors of Several attackswhich have not yet been claimed, which aimed arrests.
Since Sunday that several prison establishments are being the target of vehicle fires and automatic weapon shots.
According to a police source to France-Presse (AFP), in total, 21 vehicles have been vandalized and/or burned since Sunday night.
In addition to the shots and fires in Marseille and Valence, they were found Messages with the acronym “DDPF” (French prisoners).
It is speculated that this acronym is a Signature of the anarchist far leftwhich faces prisons as spaces of state oppression spaces.
“I don’t know what is behind this slogan, nor does I care,” said the French Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmaninsince the arrest of Toulon-La Farlède, also in southeastern France.
In that arrest, the door was Marcas de Balas de Kalashnikov.
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Last night, a coordinated series of attacks targeted prisons across France.
Gangs opened fire with automatic weapons and set prison staff vehicles ablaze in multiple locations.The attacks occurred in:
•Toulon
• Aix-en-Provence
•Marseille
•Valence
•Nîmes
•Luynes…— World (@XTheWorldXx)
Acts of intimidation (not claimed)
Referring to your policy of hardening prison sentences against the most dangerous prisoners, who may be at the origin of these attacksDarmanin stated that there was “clearly acts of intimidation against police officers and, therefore, against the Republic ”.
In the early hours of Monday, the arrest gate Toulon-La Farlède was the target of shots fired by “several individuals” who arrived in a vehicleaccording to the toulon prosecutor.
Fifteen impacts were registered after these Kalashnikov shots, according to a source close to the case.
Eight vehicles were also set on fire at a dealer near the arrest of Nîmes (south) on Sunday night to Monday, according to the local prosecutor.
In the parking lot of the Detention Center Villepintenear Paris, three vehicles, including two prison agents, were set on fire at dawn on Monday, according to a police source.
In the arrest of Aix-Luynes (Southeast), a door was set on fire, according to a source close to the case.
In the early hours of Sunday to Monday, the fires also reached the arrest of Reaunear Paris, and the Parking Park of the National School of Penitentiary Administration (ENAP) in Agen (southwest), according to several sources close to the case.
Seven vehicles were “destroyed or damaged due to a fire” in Enap’s parking lot, according to the local prosecutor.
According to a police source, the arrests of Nanterrenear Paris, and Valence They were also affected by fires in vehicles, some of which had already been vandalized.
🚨🚔 Prisons were massively attacked overnight in France. Here’s what cocaine has to do with it
Gangs targeted multiple prisons across the country — opening fire with automatic weapons, setting staff cars on fire, and threatening personnel.
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— NEXTA (@nexta_tv)
After incidents between Sunday and Tuesday in various arrests and in ENAP, the National Anti-Terrorism Attorney (PNAT) assumed the inquiry, opened by criminal association with terrorism.