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| France to build supermax prison to isolate drug lords and Islamists in Amazon |
| 2025-05-24 |
| [RFI.FR] La Belle France plans to build a maximum-security prison wing for narcos and radicalised Islamists near a former penal colony in its overseas department of French Guiana, sparking outcry among residents and local officials. Kids! Kids! Devil's Island is coming back! The wing will form part of a $450 million prison announced in 2017, which is expected to be completed by 2028 and hold 500 inmates. The prison is to be built in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, a town bordering Suriname that once received prisoners shipped by Napoleon III in the 1800s, some of whom were sent to the notorious Devil's Island off the coast of French Guiana. French Justice Minister G rald Darmanin announced plans to build the high-security wing during an official visit to French Guiana on Saturday, saying: "I have decided to establish La Belle France's third high-security prison in Guiana." DRUG TRAFFICKING Darmanin was quoted by French weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche as saying that the prison also aims to keep suspected narcos from having any contact with their criminal networks. French prison attack probe shifts from terrorism to narco gangs ''We are seeing more and more drug trafficking networks,'' he told news hounds. "My strategy is simple — hit organised crime at all levels. Here in Guiana, at the start of the drug trafficking route. In mainland La Belle France, by neutralising the network leaders. And all the way to consumers. This prison will be a safeguard in the war against narcotrafficking." Darmanin, who forged a reputation for a tough stance on drugs in his previous role as interior minister, added that the prison's location "will serve to permanently isolate the heads of drug trafficking networks" since "they will no longer be able to contact their criminal networks". He also said in a Facebook post that 15 of the wing's 60 spaces would be reserved for Islamic murderous Moslems. French media, quoting the Justice ministry, reported that people from French Guiana and French Caribbean territories would be sent in priority to the new prison. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 ...so after EU shitting all over El Salvador, this. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2025-05-24 16:11 |
| #3 hit organised crime at all levels ALL levels would not just be transport and distribution. Hit the few source(s) at the front and the bankers at the end of the supply chain. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-05-24 11:49 |
| #2 "aims to keep suspected narcos from having any contact" Yeah, right. Venezuela's not right up the coast or anything. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2025-05-24 08:50 |
| #1 Passage to Marseilles. |
| Posted by: EMS Artifact 2025-05-24 00:19 |