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REAU: French police across the country launched a large manhunt for a notorious gangster who said his crime life was inspired by Hollywood movies like "Scarface", Jailbreak Sunday, fleeing his prison aboard a hijacked helicopter in a commando style operation.
Redoine Faid, 46, broke into prison near Paris with the help of two accomplices who used smoke bombs and angle grinders to clear their way. According to prison unionist Martial Delabroye and a judicial source, Faid was talking to a brother, who was later taken into custody.
The men quickly managed to escape into the helicopter in an operation of only 10 minutes. , Delabroye recounts AFP at Reau penitentiary in the southeastern suburbs of the French capital
This is the second time that Faid has managed a spectacular escape – in 2013, it was only in France. has pioneered a jail path in northern France using dynamite.
Some "2,900 police and gendarmes were mobilized" for a hunt for the national man, said a police source AFP .
The helicopter – hijacked from a terrified flight instructor – landed around 11:15
The two men dressed in black and armed with assault rifles fired smoke bombs before spawning a path in the prison visiting room with the help of power tools
The guards, who were unarmed, escaped safely.
The helicopter was found later in the northern suburbs of Paris about 60 km from the prison, according to a source.
According to a police source, the pilot of the helicopter was a flight instructor who was expecting a student. 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.
French Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet, arriving at Reau prison on Sunday evening, said the commandos "have probably used drones to monitor the location … the ongoing investigation will tell us. "
came after an appellate court in April sentenced Faid to 25 years for orchestrating a botched armed robbery in 2010 in which a female policewoman was killed
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Faid has been behind bars since the middle of 2011 for violating the conditions of his parole because of previous convictions for bank robbery and brazen robbery of transit vehicles.
In his 2013 jailbreak, he briefly took four guards hostage with a gun before escaping. 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 when 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 after spending ten years behind bars after convince parole officers that he regretted his criminal past and that he was determined to start over
the police He nicknamed "the author" for two books that he co-wrote about his delinquent youth. Faid, who has a cult in the harsh suburbs outside Paris where he grew up, has made several appearances on television.
"He is very polite."
Paris Film Festival in April 2009, Faid approached Michael Mann, Director of Gangster Film 1995 "Heat" with Al Pacino and Robert Niro, saying to him: " You were my technical advisor. "
that he had watched the film dozens of times to perfect his bank robbery prowess. 659002] One of his prison guards said that Faid had never had any 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", said the supervisor Delabroye. said the yard where the helicopter landed is the only area not equipped with anti-aircraft net because detainees never use it – "except to leave prison". – AFP
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