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French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti meets with prison guards' unions the day after two prison officers were killed in an attack on a prison van at a toll booth in Normandy. The unions are calling for "a drastic reduction in prison transport by promoting the use of videoconferencing by judges or their travel to prisons." IMAGES
In the wake of Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has come out in favour of "psychiatric care orders that could be granted to police prefects" for "a those involved in radical Islam and who suffer from mental illness. A German tourist was fatally stabbed cloes to the Eiffel tower on Saturday and two other people wounded in the attack. The attacker was a Frenchman in his mid-20s born to a non-religious Iranian family but who had already done prison time for planning an attack and was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical with mental issues. SOUNDBITE
For his first outing as Justice Minister, Eric Dupond-Moretti visited the Fresnes prison. The famous lawyer and newly appointed member of the French government said he was "concerned about freedom, about the conditions of detention and about the working conditions of prison staff". (COMPLETES VIDI1US3E1_EN) SOUNDBITE
French Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet visits Baumettes prison in Marseille where visits for family members resumed this week. Until June 2, they are limited to one person, for a maximum of one hour, once a week, while observing strict hygiene rules, because of the Covid-19 epidemic. IMAGES
Prison guards gather outside the Condé-sur-Sarthe prison in Normandy to protest, a day after a "radicalised" Islamist prisoner seriously wounds two of their fellow employees with a knife. The assailant is later wounded during a police assault in which his wife was killed. IMAGES
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