This Friday, twenty -one people were indicted as part of the investigation into The attacks and degradations carried out since April 13 Against prisons, vehicles and homes of penitentiary staff.
After their indictment, most suspects were placed in pre -trial detention by a liberties and detention judge (JLD), in accordance with the requisitions of the National Jurisdiction to Combat Organized Crime (Junalco), the only one now to conduct investigations.
At 11 p.m., three were to appear in front of a JLD. In the box, those who could see AFP before the camera was ordered are about twenty years old. The “public, political dimension” of the file “is overwhelming for all the under investigation”, reacted to the press the lawyer of one of them, Helin Köse.
“The instruction will have to highlight the responsibility of each. My client, for example, had no idea of the scale of the activities of this group and firmly condemns them, “she added.
“The automatic indicted under investigation in this file (…) reflect an desire to make an example rather than doing the right,” regretted Juliette Triquet, another lawyer. For the Maxence Gallo council, prisons’ attacks reflect “a call for unwelcome help in its form but which must be listened to”.
A close friend of the DZ Mafia among the defendants
The Paris prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, will hold a press conference on Saturday at 11 a.m. in court. In the morning, the anti -terrorist prosecutor’s office, initially seized of the case but which left the hand to the Lyon prosecution and the Jualco (national jurisdiction against organized crime) of the Paris prosecutor’s office, had announced The referring to the courts of 21 suspectsamong whom seven people were already detained, and two are minors.
According to information from the Parisian – today in France, one of them, suspected of being the instigator of the first Telegram group bearing the name « DDPF » (The acronym for the defense of the rights of French prisoners), is Imran A., member of the DZ Mafia.
The DDPF group, completely unknown, had published video and threats on this encrypted messaging, which closed the canal. “Three probable relays of DDPF’s violent actions, also included in great crime” and in detention, have been identified in total, underline in a joint press release the National Anti -terrorist prosecution (PNAT) and Junalco.
These “orders of order” have appointed “targets (…) among the agents and penitentiary establishments (…) and would have requested relays outside the walls, to recruit performers, sometimes give them the means to act, and remunerate them”, it is detailed.
The investigations “highlighted a similar operating mode, deployed repeatedly: from a watchword given by the instigator of the DDPF movement on a Telegram channel, share offers have been disseminated and relayed on social networks, performers have been recruited and have taken action, by means of significant remuneration”, reports the press release. “This operating mode corresponds to that now usually used by criminal organizations,” it added.
Dozens of arrests
A total of 30 people were arrested Between Monday and Wednesday during a large net throughout France. Seven were released.
A 16 -year -old minor was indicted and imprisoned in Lyon for “fires around remand houses” in the Rhône, according to his lawyer, Hervé Banbanaste. The procedure, which also concerns an adult, could not be linked with the main survey.
The judicial information opened Friday by Junalco for in particular association of criminals for the preparation of crimes and crimes and attempted murder in an organized gang relates to fifteen actions carried out against prisons and prison agents from April 13.
That day, 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). A series of car fires of prison personnel followed everywhere in France, fireworks on prisons, or even Kalashnikov shots like in Toulon. And firearm shots and Molotov cocktail jets on April 21 in a subdivision in Isère where penitentiary agents reside, near the Saint-Quentin-Fallavier prison.
The PNAT seized the investigation on April 15 but at the end of the thread, “it does not appear that these coordinated actions proceed from a terrorist enterprise”. The tracks of violent radical ideology and foreign interference, “fully explored”, were abandoned. “On the other hand, the investigations made it possible to resolutely incur these actions in very great organized crime,” according to the press release.
The Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, had attributed from the start attacks on organized crime. Parliament definitively adopted a bill on Tuesday intended to strengthen the fight against drug traffickers.
