A 'radicalised' inmate at a prison in France has been shot and injured in a police raid after he seriously wounded two guards in a knife attack, sources told AFP
File photo Image: Shutterstock/hrui File photo Image: Shutterstock/hrui A ‘RADICALISED’ INMATE at a prison in France has been shot and injured in a police raid after he seriously wounded two guards in a knife attack, sources told AFP.Prisoner Michael Chiolo and his female partner were in the family-visiting area of a high-security prison in Normandy when police moved in and detained them, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said on Twitter.
Chiolo, who was serving a 30-year sentence, is thought to have become a “radicalised” Islamist while in prison. He was also sentenced to a year in jail – when already in prison – for asking fellow inmates to “reenact” an attack by Islamic State gunmen on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris in November 2015.France has suffered a series of deadly attacks from Islamist extremists since 2015 and is on high alert amid concerns about the return of Islamic State group jihadists from Syria.
In January 2018, prison staff held three weeks of protests after a guard was attacked by a jihadist inmate at a high-security jail in northern France.
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