21 suspects presented to justice for an indictment

Twenty-one suspects are presented this Friday to judges in Paris with a view to their indictment for attacks on prisons and prison agents, said the National Anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office (PNAT) which divests this investigation. “The investigations made it possible to resolutely register these actions in very great organized crime”underlines the PNAT in a common statement with the national jurisdiction against organized crime (Junalco), now responsible for investigations.

“Among the respondents” figure “Whoever is likely to be the creator of the first Telegram account entitled DDPF”pour “Defense of French prisoners”et “Close to the Dz mafia »they underline. A total of 30 people, including four minors, were arrested between this Wednesday and this Wednesday during a wide blow throughout France. Seven police custody were lifted without pursuit at this stage.

“At the end of this operation, it does not appear that these coordinated actions proceed from a terrorist enterprise whose object would have been the commission of offenses with the sole purpose of seriously disturbing public order by intimidation or terror”develop the PNAT and the Jualco. “No violent radical ideology, no foreign interference, fully explored tracks, could be characterized”they continue. “On the other hand, the investigations made it possible to resolve these actions resolutely in the very great organized crime”according to the press release.

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The judicial information, open this Friday for in particular association of criminals for the preparation of crimes and crimes, relates to fifteen actions carried out against prisons and prison agents from April 13. April 13 in Agen appeared for the first time the tag «DDPF» Nearly seven cracked cars in the parking lot of the National School of Penitentiary Administration (ENAP).

A series of car fires of prison personnel had followed everywhere in France, fire mortar fire on prisons, even Kalashnikov fire as in Toulon. The investigation also relates to firearm fire and jets of two Molotov cocktails that targeted a subdivision in Villefontaine (Isère) on April 21, where prison agents reside, not far from Saint-Quentin-Fallavier prison.

The Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, had attributed from the start of the attacks on organized crime, while Parliament definitively adopted a bill on Tuesday to strengthen the fight against drug traffickers.