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Added on the 06/03/2019 06:41:28 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A protest is held outside Condé-sur-Sarthe prison after a "radicalised" inmate who seriously wounded two guards in a knife attack on Tuesday, was shot and injured in a police raid that also left his visiting partner fatally wounded. 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
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
A dense crowd takes part in a march in Conflans-Saint-Honorine to pay homage to Samuel Paty, assassinated on Friday near the school where he taught history and geography. IMAGES
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