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French prosecutor’s officeThe French authorities launched a level hunting for thousands of small Chinese phones used by convicts to continue criminal activities from the interior of the prison.
Phones, not greater than cigarette lighters, are almost completely plastic and have a reputation that they are practically invisible for metal detectors.
Under the operational interruption of prison, announced on Tuesday by a cyber crime of the Branch of Paris Prosecution, prison officers are authorized to conduct searches in 500 cells in 66 detention centers.
According to Le Monda newspapers, devices were transited “suppository” prison prisoners due to their ease of concealment.
“Investigations found that some of these phones were used to commit crimes in custody, including drug trafficking, racketing, fire and attempted murder,” said the Prosecution’s statement.
French supplier of the device – a company called Opport – was stopped from trading and three staff members arrested. It is considered to sell about 5,000 phones, of which only 20 € (£ 16.84) cost him the cheapest.
EPAThe French Minister of Justice Gerald Darmanin promised to be rejected for drugs and other criminal organizations, whose frequently said too often they could continue working even after they were closed.
In 2024. About 40,000 mobile phones were seized in prisons. Conventional devices are designed through prison walls or dropped the drones. The others are smuggled from corrupt prison staff. Telephone jams is distributed in some prisons, but there are doubts about its efficiency.
Similar mini phones are produced in large numbers in China, according to Le Monda. Although they are alone in France contemporary, it is a crime for the supply of prisoners by phone.
The French prosecutor’s office said it has passed information on how to accompanied the phones of the Judicial Cooperation Agency of the EU Eurojust, so that other countries can implement similar clamps.
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