After unchecked French Organized Crime Gangs promoted nightly assaults towards prisons, it seems that Paris will in the end begin considering significantly about tackling the issue – even when they go about it in a stunning method.
When you have been stunned that US President Donald J. Trump floated the concept of rebuilding the Alcatraz jail, simply brace your self for the French concept of constructing a successor for one of the notorious prisons in historical past, L’Îlle du Diable – Satan’s Island.
In the present day, throughout a go to to the French Guiana territory, Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin introduced that the federal government will construct a brand new high-security jail within the territory.
It is going to be used, in accordance with the Minister, ‘to deal with drug traffickers and radical Islamists’.
BBC reported:
“Gérald Darmanin instructed Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) newspaper that the jail would goal organized crime ‘in any respect ranges’ of the drug provide chain.
The €400m (£337m) facility, which might open as early as 2028, can be in-built an remoted location deep within the Amazon jungle within the northwestern area of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni.”
Situated in the midst of the South American jungle, the jail is projected to carry as much as 500 folks, containing a separate wing specifically designed to deal with ‘essentially the most harmful criminals’.
“In an interview with JDD, the minister stated the brand new jail could be ruled by an ‘extraordinarily strict carceral regime’ designed to ‘incapacitate essentially the most harmful drug traffickers’.”
Like in so many different international locations, French authorities are unable to maintain cell phones from coming into into their jails.
“Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is the previous port of entry to the notorious Satan’s Island penal colony, the place 70,000 convicts from mainland France have been despatched between 1852 and 1954. The penal colony was the setting of French author Henri Charrière’s e book Papillon, which was later made right into a Hollywood movie starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.”
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