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About 2,900 police and gendarmes are deployed Monday (2) to find the recurrent robber Redoine Faïd, who escaped by helicopter from the prison of Réau near Paris. He had already escaped five years ago from a prison in the north of the country.
On Sunday morning (1), a helicopter with three accomplices landed in the prison yard to save Faid. The operation lasted ten minutes.
Later, the helicopter was partially found in the Paris area, and the pilot, who had been taken hostage, was in shock after being beaten.
Faïd and his accomplices escape in a black sedan, aboard which is a fourth man. The car was found in the parking lot of a shopping center on the outskirts of Paris.
According to a source close to the investigation, the command disappeared aboard at least one other vehicle.
While many questions arise about the security level of Réau Prison, Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet acknowledged possible errors in an interview with Radio Europe 1.
"I do not want to point out that There was no flaws. If that were the case, we will fix it immediately, I asked for a general inspection mission on the spot, "she said.
Almost at the same time, on RTL, the Prime Minister Edouard Philippe emphasized that it was urgent to find the fugitive, "recognizing that this flight raises many questions."
"Command well prepared"
"We face a very well prepared command and well organized who landed in the only space of this prison that had no anti-helicopter system. "
For Emmanuel Baudin, Secretary General" He had to be in a maximum security institution … where a helicopter could never land because there are cables everywhere because the towers are not in the right place. "are very large and heavily armed," Baudin told France Info
In June 2013 , a report commissioned by the Department of l & # 3 The prison administration (DAP) had warned of problems in the prison of Rau, linked to the poor surveillance in the central house, targeting prisoners considered the most dangerous.
This inspection was carried out after the attempt of two inmates to blow up a patio door. Among them was Smain Ait Ali Belkacem, one of the perpetrators of the 1995 attacks in France.
According to the DAP, the detention center in Réau, which currently has 650 detainees for 800 seats, presents "an appropriate level of security to accommodate particularly dangerous detainees".
Redoine Faid was sentenced in second instance in April to 25 years in prison for a failed robbery that claimed the life of Aurélie Fouquet in 2010. She was shot dead during a chase down the road.
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