After unchecked French Organized Crime Gangs promoted nightly attacks against prisons, it appears that Paris will at long last start thinking seriously about tackling the problem – even if they go about it in a surprising way.
If you were surprised that US President Donald J. Trump floated the idea of rebuilding the Alcatraz prison, just brace yourself for the French idea of building a successor for one of the most infamous prisons in history, L’Îlle du Diable – Devil’s Island.
Today, during a visit to the French Guiana territory, Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin announced that the government will build a new high-security prison in the territory.
It will be used, according to the Minister, ‘to house drug traffickers and radical Islamists’.
BBC reported:
“Gérald Darmanin told Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) newspaper that the prison would target organized crime ‘at all levels’ of the drug supply chain.
The €400m (£337m) facility, which could open as early as 2028, will be built in an isolated location deep in the Amazon jungle in the northwestern region of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni.”
Located in the middle of the South American jungle, the prison is projected to hold up to 500 people, containing a separate wing specially designed to house ‘the most dangerous criminals’.
“In an interview with JDD, the minister said the new prison would be governed by an ‘extremely strict carceral regime’ designed to ‘incapacitate the most dangerous drug traffickers’.”
Like in so many other countries, French authorities are unable to keep mobile phones from entering into their jails.
“Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is the former port of entry to the infamous Devil’s Island penal colony, where 70,000 convicts from mainland France were sent between 1852 and 1954. The penal colony was the setting of French writer Henri Charrière’s book Papillon, which was later made into a Hollywood film starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.”
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