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“You can do a hold-up without killing. They didn’t have to kill.”

Outside La Santé prison in central Paris, feelings are running high. Thirty or 40 prison officers are holding a protest over Tuesday’s murder of two colleagues at an ambush at a motorway toll in Normandy.

A banner reads: “Prisons in Mourning.”

“You put a gun to the guard’s head and say ‘let him go or I shoot’. Of course the guard is going to obey. And no-one dies,” one officer says.

“Hold-ups happen. It could have been anyone of us in the van. But they didn’t have to kill,” adds another.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c72p2nypzllo

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