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Behind the prison attacks, the shadow of drug trafficking and the DZ Mafia

Members of the scientific police inspected burned cars in the parking lot of Tarascon prison (Bouches-du-Rhône), on April 16, 2025. Manon Cruz / Reuters

The discovery, in mid-April, of vehicles of cracked penitentiary supervisors and prisons targeted by shots, with the signing of enigmatic tags “DDPF” (“Defense of the rights of French prisoners”), had a time suggested the scenario of an action linked to ultra -ke, or even a foreign intervention.

After two weeks of investigation and around thirty arrests, the shadow hovering behind these violent and coordinated attacks is a much more familiar threat: that of organized crime and, more precisely, narcotrafiating.

The attacks of recent weeks are described as corresponding to the usual operating mode of recruitment and execution of tasks by organized crime. If the acronym “DDPF” first taken aback the investigators, the method used to commit these intimidation acts brings back to “pressure strokes” regularly sponsored by the narcotrafiating to young performers, inexpensive, paid for a few hundred or a few thousand euros to provide a service. In fact, several “carbonists”, usually used on “deal” points, seem to have been involved in recent attacks targeting prisons.

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