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Justice minister "shocked" by knife attack in French prison

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French Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet says she is "extremely shocked" after the "cowardly, terrorist attack" in the high security prison of Condé-sur-Sarthe, in northwestern France. A prison inmate seriously wounded two guards in a knife attack described as a terrorist incident and was later detained in a police raid. SOUNDBITE

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