Hijacked, the helicopter pilot pulled Faïd out of jail with "two Colts on his head"

The helicopter pilot hijacked and summoned Redoine Faïd out of jail on Wednesday described how the robber's accomplices pointed him to two Colt revolvers "on his head" and gave him "lacrosse" that he obey. "I have the impression that this morning, the stress is much stronger than yesterday and the day before yesterday," Stéphane Buy said on RTL, three days after the spectacular escape of Redoine Faïd prison Réau en Seine -and-Marne.

"They warned me that my family was in danger" . Sunday at 9:30 am, two men who had booked a helicopter initiation flight arrived at the aerodrome of Lognes. Stephane Buy knew them since they "had made a flight before and it had gone very well, on a baptism". They require flying on the Alouette II and not on another model that Stéphane Buy thinks more suitable for fuel issues. The tone goes up and "they attack me, they condemn me to take this machine (…) They forced me and warned that my family was in danger."

"I had no choice" . Shortly after take-off, they force him to land in a field. There, "they take aim at me and (give me) shots of lacrosse and explain to me what we will do with their choice to go to get a friend in the prison of Réau". Stéphane Buy does not oppose any resistance: "I did not have the choice with two Colts on my head"

"I received shots of lacrosse". The helicopter leaves and lands again in a field where "other individuals" mount but the machine refuses to restart. "That's where it was the nightmare (…) They may have thought that I was simulating a false failure, I got more and more sticks", so much so that Stéphane Buy falls, unconscious, and is relieved by the perpetrators.

The turbine starts again and the helicopter goes towards the prison. He lands in a courtyard and Redoine Faïd embarks. Stéphane Buy said he did not identify the robber who "was really silent". Once in the air, the commando orders the pilot to head for Roissy. It arose a few minutes later, "near a Total station, it was at the edge of a fast lane," says the pilot.

They try to "set the fire." Once the operation is over, the team "tries to set fire to the cabin" of the machine and then escapes by car. According to the investigators, the criminals then leave their car in the parking lot of the O'Parinor shopping center in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), for another vehicle that was also found burned in the Oise. One hundred specialized police officers of the PJ are mobilized to find Redoine Faïd. Wednesday, the most wanted man in France, was still on the run.