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A notorious French criminal serving 25 years of murder escaped bravely from prison on Sunday after several heavily armed men landed in the yard of a helicopter, released him from prison. a visitors' room and took him away.
This was Faid's second bold escape, which escaped from a different prison with explosives hidden in bundles of cloth.
His last escape from the prison of Réau took "only a few minutes," Justice Department said. The unarmed guards said that they could not do anything to stop it.
All dressed in black, two men wearing balaclavas and police armbands left the helicopter and entered the prison to look for Faid. They used a grinding machine to open the door of the visitors' room, BFM Martial Delabroye, a representative of the guards union, said on television.
Men put smoke cartridges to hide from video cameras and the helicopter landed. In the only part of the complex that was not covered by an anti-helicopter net, said another union member, Loic Delbroc.
A French helicopter Alouette II is seen in Gonesse, north of Paris, Sunday, abandoned by Faid after his escape from prison. (Geoffroy Van Der Hbadelt / AFP / Getty Images)
When the helicopter arrives, Faid meets his brother in the visitors' room. A third man was holding the pilot under the threat of a gun, union members said.
French media reported that the three men took the pilot hostage in a flying club in the Paris region. He was later released without physical injury.
The helicopter was found burned in the city of Garges-lès-Gonesse, in the northern suburbs of Paris. Faid was left behind with his accomplices.
French prosecutors opened an investigation into the escape. The investigators were questioning Faid's brother Sunday afternoon.
Faid, 46, was serving a sentence for the death in 2010 of a young police officer killed during a failed theft. In the 1990s, he led a gang involved in stealing banks and armored vans. He was arrested in 1998 after three years of flight in Switzerland and Israel, according to the French media.
Faid was released in 2009 after serving 10 years. At that time, he swore that he had changed his life, wrote a confession book about his life of crime and began a mbadive media tour in 2010.
Yet, he was the alleged mastermind of the attempt Armed robbery in 2010 led to a high speed chase and shootings with the police who killed Aurélie Fouquet, 26. He was arrested in 2011.
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