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The last escape of Redoine Faid, who was serving a 25-year prison sentence for an armed robbery in which a policewoman was killed, made the French authorities blush.
Faid came out of a Paris prison by two accomplices who used smoke bombs and angle grinders to break into the prison and drag the fugitive into a waiting helicopter.
Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet told Europe 1 radio that she had sent a team of inspectors to the prison "to see if the security measures were faulty so we could rectify them ".
She suggested that leaving Faid in the same prison for "a few months" was a mistake.
"We must be careful not to leave the same people in the same places for too long, when we are dealing with this type of individual," she said.
"The rotation should probably be more frequent," she said.
Faid's accomplices hijacked a helicopter from a flying school on Sunday morning and forced the terrified instructor to take them to jail, where the plane hovered overhead. the courtyard.
Two men dressed in black, armed with badault rifles, then fired smoke bombs before using power tools to enter the prison's parlor, where Faid was talking to his brother.
The guards, who were unarmed, fled and raised the alarm. But within 10 minutes, Faid had escaped. The helicopter was later found in a northeastern Paris suburb about 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the prison.
The pilot, who had been beaten, was found in shock.
The men then continued their escape by car, changing vehicles en route. The first car was found burned in a shopping mall parking lot.
Belloubet said on Sunday that the gang had probably used drones to implant the prison.
The breakthrough comes five years after Faid left a prison in the north of France using dynamite.
Faid has been behind bars since mid-2011 for violating parole conditions due to previous convictions for bank robbery and shameless CCTV robbery.
In his 2013 jailbreak, he took hostage four guards with a gun before escaping in a car waiting. All the hostages were released unharmed.
It was resumed six weeks later in a hotel on the outskirts of Paris.
Faid, who has a cult in the multiethnic suburbs of Paris where he grew up, made several appearances on television.
The police nicknamed him "The Author" for two books that he co-authored on his juvenile delinquency.
At a film festival in Paris in April 2009, Faid approached Michael Mann, the director of the 1995 gangster movie "Heat" with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, telling him, "You were my advisor technical."
He wrote that he had watched the movie dozens of times to perfect his bank robbery prowess.
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