The French prisons fell under attack. Are violent drug bands to blame?

Officially, all investigations are still open in a wave of arson and weapons attacks in French prisons.

This means that the police have not excluded the extremist left or foreign authority like Russia or Algeria.

But the belief is increasing that the attacks – 12 Sunday night – can only be the work of drug bands, hitting the government's last repression.

This is certainly the faith of the government itself.

Turning on Thursday morning, Interior Minister Bruno Deptile said he was “sure that what we are dealing with is the yobi drugs (in French, Narco-Racaille) “.

“They have not declared war against us. We have declared war with them with our new Drug Traffic Act. They know we will hit their portfolios.”

In what was obviously a planned plan for three nights, gangs set fire to cars outside prisons and a prison officers' training center. Rifles were used in two places.

In many attacks, perpetrators spray graffiti carrying the initials DDPF which means Rights of French prisoners – Rights for prisoners from French prisons.

Previously, the group was unheard of, but on Tuesday posted a video on the Telegram messaging platform showing the burning of the prison officer's car.

In French, which is full of mistakes, the video of the video accuses Minister of Justice Gerard Darman of declaring a “war” of prisoners.

“All we want is that human rights will be respected,” the text said. “If in 2025 we can watch TV, smoke and eat dishes without worrying about our cells, this is just because our elders fought for these fundamental rights.”

Presenting yourself as a human rights defenders may not be the usual methodology of drug gangs.

But neither DDPF does not occur as a classic final left or anarchist organization that can fight more naturally for the cause.

On the one hand, such groups tend to have an intellectual basis, which means that they write grammatically and properly written French. So far, it will not be the rights of prisoners so far have made a specific problem.

Investigators said the perpetrators of the attacks caught on a video were dressed more like drugs-gang royal soldiers, not distant fighters who tend to come from different social origin.

And in one place, they wrote the wrong set of initials – DDFM – suggesting that their attachment to the alleged organization is not exactly deep.

The theory of foreign manipulation is taken seriously – especially after proven cases of Russian intervention such as spraying stars of David in Paris After the attacks on October 7th.

Relationships with Algeria are also of all time right now.

But if the theory of the drug gang is preferred, it is because the means and motivation are so easy to understand.

Currently, the French government includes an unusual tandem: interior interior and minister of justice, who are not rivals; which are both in the political right; And who have promised to fight the head of the scourge, which they say is drug trade.

To this end, Darman and Deptle are currently directing a bill through parliament, which they say will prevent seriously from preventing the ability of Lords of drugs to work.

A special branch of the prosecutor's office will be created. There will be additional powers to investigators and special protective status for informants.

Even more than a threat to drug barons -so the government says -there will be two newly formed prisons, where the 100 most powerful of them will be interned later this year.

In these prisons with the highest security, there will be much stricter rules governing visits and communication with the outside world. New measures will be created to stop the penetration of mobile phones (which is known that tens of thousands are distributed in French prisons).

The aim is to prevent the band's leaders from continuing their operations behind bars – a security impairment that has become widespread.

The case with Mohammed AmraLord drugs, whose escape last year led to the murder of two prisoners near Rouen, is typical.

Prison staff who were on the basis of protest, told the BBC how loosening in prisons undermines morality and posed a growing risk to security.

Amra was seized in Romania last month.

The French government sees in prison to attack a sign that once drug gangs feel intimidated – and so they go back.

Of course, this responds to the French government to say this, because it is proof that they can present to the voters that they are really difficult.

Clichr will be when he grabs one of the perpetrators and will make him explain why he did it. Investigators say we should not wait long.