Again attacked French guards

On the fifth day of protests by French prison guards for safer working conditions, more personnel and better payment, two jailers in Corsica were attacked with at least one detainee by a stabbing weapon.

The perpetrator and two presumably complicit inmates have entrenched themselves in a cell, according to French media. The actions of the guards started last Monday with blockades of dozens of penitentiaries. Four days earlier, in the North French prison of Vendin-le-Vieil, three jailers were wounded when a convicted terrorist attacked them with a stabbing weapon.