Overview

• French authorities seized 164 phones, including 88 miniaturized devices, in raids across 66 prisons, targeting contraband designed to evade detection.
• An additional 500 mini-phones and €70,000 in cash were confiscated from a warehouse linked to a French vendor marketing the devices for prison use.
• The phones, imported from China, were used by inmates to orchestrate crimes such as drug trafficking, fraud, arson, and contract killings.
• Eurojust is distributing customer and technical data to EU member states to assess the devices' presence and usage in other prison systems.
• Security experts are analyzing the confiscated phones, with the National Prison Intelligence Service aiding in identifying users to curb further criminal activity.