France plans to construct a high-security jail within the Amazon as a part of its crackdown on severe drug offenders.
Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin introduced the proposal all over a discuss with to French Guiana — an in a foreign country territory in South America which borders Brazil and Suriname — on the weekend.
The scheme would see a 500-bed jail inbuilt Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, a space of French Guiana, with area to deal with 60 high-level drug criminals and 15 terrorists, Darmanin mentioned.
A courthouse can be constructed on the Ministry of Justice web page, which might open as early as 2028 and which is because of price €400 million, he defined.
The facility might be built with regards to a infamous penal colony referred to as the Devil’s Island that France operated till the Nineteen Fifties.
The penal colony, which was once famend for its quick lifestyles expectancy, was once used because the surroundings for the unconventional “Papillon”, which later turned into a Hollywood movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen.
The minister instructed the French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) that the aim of the jail is “to put the most dangerous drug traffickers out of action.”
As smartly as concentrated on the drug industry within the territory, Darmanin additionally mentioned that it could assist to ease jail overcrowding.
Darmanin has made the battle towards drug trafficking one in all his very best priorities. By this summer season, he needs to isolate his nation’s most sensible 100 drug traffickers from their prison networks.
Under this plan, prisoners might be transferred to 2 high-security prisons at Vendin-le-Vieil (Pas-de-Calais) and Condé-sur-Sarthe (Orne) in mainland France.
Speaking to the French newspaper Le Monde in January, Darmanin defined his reasoning.
“What is unbearable is that prisons are no longer obstacles for most narco-traffickers to continue their trafficking, or to assassinate or to threaten magistrates, prison officers, journalists or lawyers,” he mentioned.
The 3rd high-security jail in his anti-drugs plan would be the one in French Guiana.
