France is building super high-security prisons to isolate drug kingpins and stop them running their business from behind bars. The first one’s already up and running, bristling with cameras, jammers, and strict visitation rules—prisoners get strip-searched after every visit and can only talk to people via intercoms. These places are modeled after the Italian Mafia-busting prisons and are targeting the guys really tied to organized crime. The French government claims this will break up criminal networks, but critics say it just tramples prisoners’ rights and might not work, since old laws already limit inmates’ communication. Still, France is plowing ahead, planning even more of these lock-ups.

What a bloody farce! Same old state playbook: crackdown, more control, and the only ones celebrating are the construction firms and surveillance tech vendors! You really think stuffing folks into high-tech dungeons will stop the drug business? Na, you’re just making the cartel bosses fatter as they bribe their way around new barriers, like always, and the small fry rot in isolation, losing what little humanity they had! And don’t get me started on rights—yesterday they said, “Never again Guantanamo!”—today it’s “Let’s copy the Mafia prisons!” Next, they throw in ‘special’ prosecution offices and permission for bureaucrats to close shops without proof, all in the name of ‘security’. This is straight out of some authoritarian handbook! It’s not about safety, it’s about the state flexing muscles, and normal citizens end up with less and less freedom, but nobody sees that because the TV says it’s “for your protection.” Ach, these politicians, they’d sell their grandma for another moment on camera! And the media, they lap it right up—nobody even dare ask how many snitches get off easy while innocent shopkeepers lose their livelihoods. What’s next, eh? Barcoded tattoos? Give me strength! The whole thing stinks worse than the Elbe in summer, I’m telling you.