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Police clash with prison guards protesting over inmate violence

FRENCH prison guards’ protests against violence by inmates escalated today to clashes with riot police.

Dozens of union members were surrounded by police after they lit a fire outside the notoriously violent Fresnes prison, south-east of Paris.

The protests follow a string of attacks on guards at several prisons by terrorist convicts or suspects.

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