.htaccess, deny to download files within a directory - .htaccess

I am trying to deny everyone to download anything inside the "attachment" directory.
My website structure is:
public_html
-img
-css
-root
--attachment
---(numeric id)
----(files)
-js
What I am trying to do is, to deny access to root/attachment//
I tried many things, but I don't know why, I cannot get it working, my last tried was:
.htaccess - on main directory.
<FilesMatch "root/attachment/.*/.*">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>
Any ideas?
Thank you very much :)

FilesMatch doesn't work with directories.
Create a new .htaccess inside root/attachment/ as
<FilesMatch ".*">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from All
</FilesMatch>
Redirect rules specified in a parent directory .htaccess apply to its sub-directories as well. In case, these access rules do not work the same way, just move the .htaccess directly into files directory.

Create a new htaccess file /root/attackment/.htaccess and add the following lines
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all

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