Several cars were torched at a prison in southern France overnight Wednesday, marking the latest in a series of attacks on ...

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

France's justice minister said on Tuesday gun and arson attacks on at least six prisons around the country were acts of ...

Assailants targeted cars and a building lobby linked to prison staff in France overnight, the authorities said Wednesday, the ...

Assailants targeted cars and a building lobby linked to prison staff in France overnight, the authorities said Wednesday, the ...

Since Sunday, unknown assailants have targeted several jails and facilities across France, torching cars, spraying the ...

The plan comes after assailants last year attacked a prison van carrying suspected drugs baron Mohamed Amra at a highway tollbooth, freeing him and killing two prison guards. He has since been re ...

The plan follows the escape from custody last year of suspected drugs baron Mohamed Amra that killed two prison guards. He has since been re-arrested in Romania and extradited back to France.

President Emmanuel Macron warned Wednesday that assailants behind a wave of coordinated arson and gunfire attacks on French prisons would be "found, tried and punished".

French justice minister Gerald Darmanin confirmed on Tuesday that attacks had been carried out overnight on several French prisons, and added he would travel to the southern city of Toulon, whose ...