Source: US News & World Report
“French jails were hit by a second wave of attacks overnight, including three cars set alight at Tarascon prison in southern France, the Justice Minister and a prison workers’ union said on Wednesday, as authorities sought to identify those responsible. ‘Cars were set on fire very early this morning,’ Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin told CNews TV and Europe 1 radio, speaking of the attack in Tarascon. The hall of a building in Meaux, east of Paris, where a prison guard works, was also set on fire overnight, as was the car of a prison guard who works in Aix-Luynes, in southern France, the FO Justice union said on X. In Tarascon, three cars burned in the prison’s parking lot, it said. Earlier in the week, at least six prisons guarding some of the nation’s most hardened crime kingpins came under gun and arson attack.” (04/16/25)