Instigator, relay, recruiters, performers: 21 suspects aged 15 to 37, without a judicial history or registered in organized crime, were indicted in the investigation into attacks “of extreme violence” against prisons and prison agents.
19 adults have been imprisoned, minor ldeux placed in a closed educational center, said at a press conference on Saturday the Paris Laure Beccuau prosecutor.
Between April 13 and 21, the prison administration “as well as its agents were the targets of extreme violence, uninhibited, premeditated, reaching them, both in their professional exercise, in the heart of their private life,” she detailed.
On April 13, in Agen, appeared the tag “DDPF” for the first time nearly seven burned cars in the parking lot of the National School of Penitentiary Administration (ENAP).
This acronym “DDPF” constituted “in a way a watchword, a kind of criminal standard behind which criminals have aggregated,” said Laure Beccuau. And “at this stage, no long -standing structured organization seems to correspond to this acronym imagined for the needs of the cause”.
Followed fires of car car cars, fireworks shots against prisons, even Kalashnikov fire, and Molotov cocktail jets in a subdivision where supervisors resident on April 21.
Over the investigations, initially carried out by the National Anti-terrorist prosecution (PNAT) with the support of the national jurisdiction against organized crime (Junalco), imposed itself “the imprint of organized crime”, she continued.
The investigation led to the identification of “certain actors already known to the great organized crime which is characterized in particular by its destabilization actions” of “those who devote themselves to hindering his action”, summed up the prosecutor.
The Ministers of the Interior Bruno Retailleau and the Justice Gérald Darmanin saw in these attacks a denunciation of the law against the drug trafficking which has just been adopted in Parliament. This text provides for the creation of high security districts in prisons for the most dangerous traffickers.
The judicial information opened by Junalco, in particular for attempted murder in an organized gang – which makes criminal imprisonment in perpetuity – and association of criminal criminals, relates to fifteen actions.
Prison attacks: 21 suspects presented to justice, the trusted narcotic trail confirmed
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“Viral videos”
To identify the network (an instigator, principals, recruiters and performers) 96 special survey techniques were used.
Between Monday and Wednesday, the 21 suspects were arrested in various places in France, notably in Paris, Lyon and Marseille, mobilizing “320 police officers”, said Philippe Chadrys, deputy national director of the judicial police.
Their profiles, geographic origins and judicial journeys are “very different”: “Some were completely unknown (of justice, editor’s note), while others can be considered as part of what is called organized crime from the top of the spectrum,” said prosecutor.
In police custody, some have challenged “all of the offenses attributed to them, others have more or less spontaneously recognized their involvement (…) in often sweetened versions (…) by fear of reprisals”, noted Laure Beccuau.
According to the prosecutor, this case “reveals the evolution of organized crime, which associates the profiles of high and bottom of the spectrum”.
The instigator of the Telegram loop entitled DDPF claimed links with the drug traffickers of the MAFIA. In detention, this 23 -year -old will soon be tried for acts related to Marseille narcobanditis.
His message of claim on a channel of the encrypted Telegram messaging, which has since been closed, was relayed by four principals, three men in detention and a woman, very present on social networks.
The performers were then recruited, including two minors, inhabitants near the premises of the attacks, responsible for fire cars, to tag the acronym DDPF, to use firearms or fireworks against sums ranging from 500 to 7,000 euros.
For Philippe Chadrys, this case has highlighted “a recruitment and communication strategy both instigators and sponsors” on encrypted messaging with “media coverage on social networks for propaganda purposes”.
The “short” videos, “fairly well done”, became “very quickly viral” with a “willingness to have a psychological impact on agents and their families in particular”.
An inmate from Bordeaux-Gradignan prison released by mistake in the place of another
