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A notorious gangster who said his crime life was inspired by films like Scarface Sunday managed a cheeky jailbreak, fleeing a prison near Paris aboard a hijacked helicopter in a commando-type operation . , 46, escaped from prison with the help of two accomplices who used smoke bombs and angle grinders to overcome the guards in the institution's visiting room. where Faid was talking to a brother, according to prison unionist Martial Delabroye. Delabroye told AFP at Reau Penitentiary, in the southeastern suburbs of the French capital, that he had managed to escape into the helicopter.
This is the second time that Faid has achieved a spectacular jailbreak – in 2013, he exploded his release from a prison in northern France using dynamite.
The helicopter – hijacked by a terrified flight instructor – landed around 11:15 (09:15 GMT) in the prison yard
The two men dressed in badault rifles fired smoke bombs before making their way. in the prison visiting room using power tools
Informed sources said earlier that there were three accomplices
The guards, who were not armed, s & # 39; 39 fled and set the alarm
. According to one source, a manhunt was launched throughout the Paris region.
According to a police source, the pilot of the helicopter was a flight instructor who was waiting for a student when he was arrested. by the accomplices of Faid. He was forced to fly before being released later in a state of shock.
The men apparently used a car that was later found burned in a shopping mall parking lot, the police said.
The escape occurred after a court of appeal convicted Faid at age 25 for orchestrating in 2010 a failed armed robbery in which a female policewoman had been killed.
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He had been in prison since mid-2011 for violating parole conditions after being convicted of bank robbery and brazen robbery of transit vehicles.
In his 2013 jailbreak, he took four guards hostage with a pistol. in a waiting car waiting. All the hostages were released unharmed.
Faid was resumed six weeks later in a hotel in an industrial area of the Paris suburbs.
A woman working at the hotel told AFP at the time that Faid's accomplice had paid the room in cash and that the two men had been there for several days.
Faid had already been released from a 10-year stay behind bars after convince parole officers that he regretted his criminal past and that he was determined to start again.
The police nicknamed him "the author" for two books that he co-authored on his juvenile delinquency
. in the difficult suburb of Paris where he grew up, he made several appearances on television
"He is very polite"
At a film festival in Paris in April 2009, Faid approached Michael Mann, the director of the gangster movie "Heat & # 39; in 1995 with Al Pacino and Robert Niro, told him: "You were my technical adviser."
He writes that he watched the movie dozens of times to perfect his bank robbery prowess. 19659002] One of his prison guards said that Faid had never had a conflict with the staff, "but we must always be wary."
"In the corner of his mind, he has never lost the idea of escaping." Behind all his manners – he is very polite – he has always hidden his game. "Delabroye , the union representative of the prison, said that the yard where the helicopter landed is the only area not equipped with anti-aircraft net because the detainees never use it – "except to leave the prison
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