escape as in a movie

PARIS Before finding herself in prison for having murdered Aurélie Fouquet, a 26-year-old policewoman, Rédoine Faid liked to tell everyone that she had seen Heat more than a hundred times. His hero was Robert De Niro as the thief Neil McCauley. But friends have always continued to call Doc, like Doc McCoy, the robber played by Steve McQueen in Getaway. And yesterday a movie of Redon really interpreted it: he escaped by helicopter from the prison of Réau, one hour by train from Paris, and is now the number one in France. The Ministry of Interior ensures that "all territorial units of the police and the gendarmerie are mobilized" and that "all means are used to locate it". But until yesterday evening of Faid Redemption, sentenced to 25 years in prison for the death of the policewoman while she escaped from a robbery to an armored truck and to another ten for an escape in 2013 , there was only one helicopter burned in an abandoned field not far from the Roissy Airport and a black Renault were charred in Aulnay-sous-Bois, a suburb of Paris.

A PERFECT PLAN
The operation worked well. It is 11 and 20 Sunday, and Redon Faid is in the living room, received the visit of his brother Brahim. A helicopter landed in the main courtyard of the prison, the only one without an anti-aircraft safety net. Two men fall, hooded, dressed in black, with bands on the police arm, armed with Kalashnikovs and tear gas. A third accomplice remains with the pilot: he and the plane, an Alouette, were seized shortly before at the air base near Fontenay-Trésigny. The two act almost by heart: with a milling machine, they slaughter a door (little known and almost never used) that leads to the living room, they come from Raid, they pick it up, and a minute later they are free again. There was no need to be hostage, there were no wounded. The police speak of "many trained, professional, heavily armed men who knew very well how to get around and where to go". The Minister of Justice Belloubet, who went there, explained that a few months ago, the prison services had noticed drones above the prison. Probably an "inspection" to prepare the operation. The helicopter was found shortly after, burned, in Garges-lès-Gonesse. The four first flew on Renault, then on a Citroën van that was lost somewhere in the greater Paris suburbs

Everyone knew that Rédoine wanted to escape. He had tried once, in 2013: he had exploded five doors with explosives and took four guards hostage to the prison of Lille. He had been on the run for a month and a half. They had taken it at dawn in the room of a small hotel in the Parisian suburbs. He had sworn that he would try again. A short time ago, a survey of the Nouvel Observateur had revealed the links of Faid with the Corsican crime, in particular with Jacques Mariani, member of the group Brise de Mer, who would have thought of him to avenge himself of a gang rival . That's why he had even thought of a plan to scare him away. So the plan never materialized. "He has always been mistaken for a hero, a myth of crime," says Frédéric Ploquin, author of a book on bullies, responsible for organized crime in the suburbs of France. "He has always wanted to be the best of his generation, this escape will only increase his reputation."