Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin and Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau have in recent months vowed to intensify the fight against narcotics and drug-related crime.
“Clearly people are trying to destabilise the state by intimidating it,“ he told the CNews/Europe 1 broadcaster on Wednesday morning.
Early on Wednesday, assailants set fire to three cars -- including one belonging to a prison guard -- in the southern town of Tarascon, its prosecutor said.
In the Seine-et-Marne region near Paris, the letters “DDPF” -- standing for “Rights of French Prisoners” -- were scrawled in the entrance of a building where a woman prison guard lives, a police source said.
Most of the incidents -- largely torched cars but also a automatic rifle volleys fired at a prison entrance near the southern city of Toulon -- were recorded overnight Monday to Tuesday.
“They order killings, launder money. They threaten police officers, judges, prison guards, and they escape,“ he said.
The plan comes after assailants last year attacked a prison van carrying suspected drugs baron Mohamed Amra at a highway tollbooth, freeing him and killing two prison guards.
He has since been re-arrested in Romania and extradited back to France.
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