Both Gerald Darmanin, the hardline interior minister, and Jordan Bardella, the far-right president of Marine Le Pen's National Rally, used the same dramatic vocabulary to warn of savagery in French society.
The prison officer killings have shone a spotlight on two major problems in France: the growing drug trade with its associated criminal activities and the crisis in the French prison service due to overcrowding and lack of control over criminal activities conducted from inside prisons.
A damning senate report highlighted the government's failure to control the increasingly violent French drug trade estimated to be worth between 3bn and 6bn a year, involving around 240,000 people directly or indirectly.
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