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Warning: This episode of Code source was modified on Monday, March 28, 2021. The initial version, published on YouTube on Wednesday, March 23, contained inaccuracies concerning Yvan Colonna, who died on March 21, 2022. The recording was made on March 17, before we became aware of several important elements of this case, and the dated elements concerning Yvan Colonna escaped our attention when finalizing the episode. Since 2017, agents of the National Prison Intelligence Service have been monitoring prisoners likely to escape, become radicalized, or even organize attacks from their cells. Sophie Stadler, a journalist at Le Parisien Week-End, has just published an investigation into this little-known service. For Code source, she tells how she gained access to these spies like no other. In this podcast: Profession: Prison Spies, under this title, Le Parisien Week-End published on Friday, March 11, an investigation into the National Penitentiary Intelligence Service, a service created in 2017 in response to the 2015 attacks and which is very little known to the French. The journalist who conducted this investigation, Sophie Stadler, is in Code Source today. She tells us how she worked and what she learned about these secret prison agents. You talk with the head of this service, first by phone, then by meeting her in January in Paris at the headquarters of the National Penitentiary Intelligence Service. It's a very frank discussion. The idea is really to tell each other what information we journalists want to obtain, what we want to do in the field of reporting, to really be with the agents. The director of the National Penitentiary Intelligence Service also explains what the security and anonymity constraints will be for these agents as well as for the prisoners. Sophie Stadler at this point in the podcast it is necessary to explain that the National Penitentiary Intelligence Service was created in response to the 2015 attacks. Following the Charlie Hebdo and L'hyper Casher attacks in particular, the idea was to strengthen the powers of the intelligence services, of all French intelligence services. The Minister of Justice at the time, Christiane Taubira, really worked towards that. Prison guards have information but what we don't do is organize this information and especially don't pass it on to a national level... To find out more: https://www.leparisien.fr/podcasts/co... Editorial management: Pierre Chausse - Editor-in-chief: Jules Lavie - Reporter: Ambre Rosala - Production: Sarah Hamny, Thibault Lambert and Raphaël Pueyo - Production and mixing: Julien Montcouquiol - Music: François Clos, Audio Network, Epidemic Sound - Graphic identity: Upian. #espionage #prison #intelligence