French jails have come under attack. Are violent drug gangs to blame?

Hugh Schofield

BBC News, Paris

Reuters A police officer from the scientific and technical police walks past one of the vehicles set on fire in the parking lotReuters

Cars have been torched in a series of attacks on French jails since Sunday night

Officially, all lines of enquiry are still open into a wave of arson and gun attacks at French prisons.

That means police haven’t ruled out the extremist left, or a foreign power…

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