“We decided straight away to move them to other institutions,” a spokesperson for the Fleury-Mérogis prison, located in the southern suburbs of Paris, told the JDD. Most of the prisoners are understood to have been moved to other institutions within the Paris region in July. Abdeslam, who was arrested in Brussels after four months on the run, is kept in solitary confinement under 24-hour video surveillance. Following the discovery, all French prisons and detention centres have been warned to be alert to the possibility of radicalized networks being formed in prison. A note sent out to prison officials, seen by Le Figaro, reminds them of the protocol for dealing with those prisoners, with a focus on solitary confinement and separating those suspected of collaboration.

Source: The Local August 22, 2016 09:11 UTC