Last Thursday, eighteen mobile phones, eleven chargers and six batteries were seized at the Baumettes prison in Marseille. Fourteen of the eighteen phones recovered as well as numerous SIM cards were found among the thirty cells inspected at the Salon-de-Provence detention center.
According to the Chancellery, these coordinated searches were carried out on the basis of “prison intelligence” which targeted prisoners suspected of pursuing “delinquent activity” from their cells.