Redoine Faid and other incredible prison breakouts

The complex escape from Sunday's prison in northern France resembles fiction, and for good reason. Redoine Faid – who escaped in a helicopter after an armed diversion – would be a fan of Hollywood crime movies.

Faid said his lifestyle was modeled on gangsters played by Robert de Niro and Al Pacino. He was serving a 25-year prison sentence for a failed flight in which a police officer was killed in 2010.

He found fame in France after escaping from prison for six weeks in 2013.

But Faid is far from the first prisoner to burst in such a dramatic way. Here are some other extraordinary stories of escape.

Other Airborne Plans

There were some attempts to escape by helicopter, including several in France. The yard where the helicopter landed Sunday was the only part of the prison without special anti-aircraft net, reports the AFP news agency.

In Greece, a convict used a helicopter to escape from a high security prison not one, but twice – in 2006 and 2009. He remains at large.

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In 2017, abductor Jimmy Causey was able to escape from a South Carolina prison with wire cutters and telephones portable.

A Sticky Ruse

Twelve inmates escaped from a county jail in Alabama in 2017 after using peanut butter to trick a guard and open a door that led to the outside.

The local sheriff admitted that the plan was "very smart," but all the men soon found themselves in custody.

Joaquin & El Chapo & # 39; Guzman

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is one of the best-known jail-breakers in history. The drug lord gave the green light to two maximum-security Mexican prisons

. In 2001 he was reportedly smuggled out of a laundry basket, but doubts were expressed about it. He avoided recapture for another 13 years.

After being sent back to prison, he escaped again through a hole in a shower stall in 2015. A tunnel a mile long had been built underneath, with lighting, ventilation and ramp for a modified motorcycle

To the embarrbadment of the Mexican authorities, the act of disappearing from the shower of El Chapo was captured on CCTV.

After several months on the run – and an infamous interview with Hollywood actor Sean Penn – Guzman was finally resumed in the state of Sinaloa.

There were rumors that he had still escaped in 2016 – which turned out to be wrong. He is currently detained in the United States and expects to be tried for drug charges after being extradited.

Killed by high heels

In 2012, 39-year-old drug dealer Ronaldo Silva could have sneaked out of a prison in Brazil by exchanging clothes with his wife during a visit. .

After shaving and applying lipstick, he was again captured after being spotted walking in poorly fitting heels near a nearby bus stop

• Fugitives Posting fleeing selfies
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Photographs emerged of him wearing the outfit, including a wig, after being taken back to jail.

Cor Korean Houdini & # 39;

Choi Gap-bok became infamous in South Korea after escaping from a detention cell in Daegu Province in 2012.

A known yoga expert, he was released in oiling and squeezing by 45cm (6×18 inches) window for food.

Investigators said that the 115lb (52kg) and 5ft 6 in (1.7m) man escaped in less than a minute by "flexibly moving like an octopus" .

The 50-year-old man was arrested again the race. He was then locked in a cell with a smaller and unavoidable food slot.

Escape from Alcatraz

Probably the most well-known prison escape from all happened near San Francisco in 1962.

Regarded as the ultimate maximum security prison in the country of his day, Alcatraz was sitting on a rock in the middle of a freezing bay of San Francisco and was fortified by strict rules and techniques of keep.

It was reported as so sure that the prisoners who had tried to escape elsewhere were sent there as punishment. Despite this, there have been more than a dozen attempts to escape by detainees during his three-decade tenure as a federal institution.

In June 1962, a morning check of the cells revealed that brothers John and Clarence Anglin and another prisoner, Frank Morris, were not in bed.

They had made dummy replicas and escaped through vents before leaving the island on a DIY raft.

What happened next remains a mystery and has been the subject of deep speculation ever since.

The FBI finally concluded that the men were probably drowned during the crossing, but the site's website page on the case still asks for public information about the three men.