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Protests at French prisons as search continues for gunmen who killed officers

Prison officers complain of overcrowding and violence after two guards killed and inmate freed from van

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
Wed 15 May 2024 08.50 BST

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Hundreds of prison officers across France have held protests after gunmen shot dead two prison officers in an ambush at a Normandy motorway toll and freed a convict linked to gangland drug killings.

On Wednesday morning, groups of prison officers blocked prison entrances across France, while some burned pallets and tyres.

Prison officers will hold a minute’s silence at 11am in memory of the killed officers, and in support of the three others who were seriously injured in the raid on a prison convoy transporting an inmate between a courthouse in Rouen and a prison at Evreux on Tuesday.

At one prison near Marseille, more than 100 prison officers had gathered beneath a banner saying: “We’re not paid to die.”

Many officers said they would carry out only a minimum service on Wednesday. Unions called for greater security and limited transfers of prisoners between prisons and courthouses.

Some complained of the poor conditions and violence in France’s overcrowded prisons. Erwan Saoudi, of the FO Justice union, said: “When you put three people in a cell that is 9 metres squared and should only hold one person, of course that creates tension and incidents.”

The French justice minister will meet prison officers unions on Wednesday afternoon.

Hundreds of police and gendarmes continued to search for the escaped convict and the gunmen.



A forensic team at work at tre travelling to prisons on Wednesday in support of the protesting prison officers.

The interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, told French radio that “savagery is touching our society”.

He said the incident was a sign of not just a French but a global failure on drug-trafficking.
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