France 24
MONTMENDI, France — Prisoners in a high-security French jail have caused an Internet sensation after two videos, one of them a “Harlem Shake” group dance, were widely shared on social networking sites, leaving prison authorities red-faced.
In a second video a prisoner at the Montmédi detention centre in northeastern France is seen wearing a prison warder’s uniform and smoking marijuana.
“No searches today,” he says ironically. The prisoner filming the scene replies that “if all the warders were like you, prison would be good fun”.
Both videos were posted on the Facebook page of hip-hop collective “Gangster D-Ter” along with messages of support for its incarcerated members.
Full story: French jail probes prisoners’ ‘Harlem Shake’ video