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Added on the 06/03/2019 06:41:28 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
About 60 guards block access to a prison in northwest France where a 'radicalised' inmate had seriously wounded two of their colleagues in a knife attack. 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
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
France's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne accuses Marine Le Pen and her far-righ party National Rally of "fuelling polemics" after Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, which has put the executive under pressure in the face of the jihadist threat. SOUNDBITE
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