�������t¶��

The most serious incidents took place over the course of five nights earlier this month, with vehicles being set alight and two prisons being targeted by gunfire in what Darmanin described as "terrorist attacks".

“Everyone is fine with deporting immigrants who have committed crimes. But that’s very different from deporting people mistakenly, without a hearing, to prisons overseas without the ability for parole.”

Quango stands for quasi autonomous non-governmental organisations, which means they are taxpayer-funded but not directly controlled by central government, and include watchdogs as well as the prison service and the Bank of England.

"It's him! It's him! I recognise his features," says Myrelis Casique Lopez, pointing at a photo of men shackled and cuffed on the floor of one of the most infamous prisons in the world.

The CDCR, which oversees the prison program, could not be reached Saturday for comment.