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TEHRAN, Mar 06 -T Guards blocked entrances at as many as 18 French prisons after two colleagues were stabbed by a radicalized inmate.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - In a statement, the main CGT union said attacks against guards are becoming more common and intolerable, and that the penal population was becoming "increasingly vindictive, aggressive and violent."
Early Wednesday, a total of 18 prisons had been blocked. That had reduced to 10 by mid-morning.
The protest comes a day the guards were stabbed with a ceramic knife by a prisoner, whose wife was visiting. He locked himself in the room afterwards but no hostages were taken.
The inmate and his wife were subdued in a police raid. The Le Monde newspaper reported that the wife died of her wounds.
French officials described the stabbing as a "terrorist attack."
Source: AP
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