France will build a new prison prison prison at its Foreign French Guiana for the house of drug traffickers and radical Islamists, the Minister of Justice in the country announced during the visit territory.
Gerald Darmanin said that Leu Journal du Dimanche (JDD) is a newspaper that a prison will target organized crime “at all levels” of the supply chain.
A plant of 400 million euros (£ 337m), which could open for 2028. years, it will be built in an isolated place deep in the Amazon jungle in the Northwest region of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni.
The plan was announced after a series of violent incidents associated with criminal banners that In the past few months, closed prisoners and staff saw.
The prison will keep up to 500 people, with a special wing designed to house the most dangerous criminals.
In an interview with JDD, the Minister said that a new prison will regulate “Extremely Stregal Representative regime” designed to “disable the most dangerous drug dealers”.
Darmanin said that the facility would be used for custody of people “at the beginning of a drug trail”, as well as a “permanent removal of heads of drug trafficking” in the French Convention “.
France Guiana is the France region in the northeast coast of South America. Her residents have the right to vote in French elections and have access to a French social security system, as well as other subsidies.
Distance from the French mainland means that Lords drugs will no longer be able to have contact with their criminal nets, “said Darman’s JDD.
The French authorities long fought to control the infiltration of mobile phones in the prison network. Tens of thousands are known circulate through French prisons.
Earlier this year, the French government announced new legislation designed to reject the activity of criminal gangs.
The measures will create a dedicated prosecutor’s branch to engage in organized crime. It will also present additional powers for investigators and special protected status for informants.
It will also see the creation of new senior security prisons – including the facility in France Guiana – to keep the most powerful baron drugs, with stricter rules that regulate visits and communication with the external world.
In recent months, France saw a series of prisons attacks, which described Darmanin as “terrorist” incidents coming in response to new government legislation.
The perpetrators of these attacks have Set the vehicles outside the prison, while Toulon’s La Farmede prison hit shootings.
In some incidents, the perpetrators of these attacks stood as defenders of the rights of prisoners.
The proposed new facility in French Guiana should be built on the “strategic intersection” for Mule Medicines, especially from Brazil and Suriname, according to the AFP news agency.
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is a former port entrance to the infamous devil’s island criminal box, where 70,000 convicts from the French Convention were sent between 1852. and 1954. years.
The penalty colony was the setting of the French writer Henry Charriere Book Papillon, who was later made in the Hollywood movie starred by Steve McKueen and Dustin Hoffman.
The BBC contacted the Ministry of French Justice for Comment.
