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One of France's most notorious criminals came out of a prison on Sunday in a meticulously orchestrated escape in which heavily armed commandos landed a hijacked helicopter on the ground near Paris, overflowing guards and brought him to freedom. minutes, "officials said.
A massive human hunt was underway for Redoine Faid, who broke up Reau Prison south of Paris. This is the second time in less than five years that Faid has escaped from a maximum security penitentiary.
Ian Langsdon / EPA / REX via Shutterstock "It was a spectacular escape, it was certainly very well prepared [prison break]," said the French Minister of Justice, Nicole Belloubet, during the meeting. 39, a press conference Sunday in front of the prison.
Belloubet stated that three armed accomplices wearing masks and dressed all in black hijacked the helicopter with his flight instructor and forced him to go to the prison yard around 11:30 am local time .
"Two commandos entered the prison to look for Redoine Faid while the third man was staying with the helicopter instructor," Belloubet said. "The two men used a grinding machine to open the door of the visiting room where Faid was and they took it and left."
Commandos also used smoke bombs to protect their movements against surveillance cameras, Belloubet said.
Faid, 46, was serving a 25-year prison sentence for a failed armed robbery in 2010 in which Aurélie Fouquet, a 26-year-old French police officer, was killed in a shootout.
Belloubet said that Faid was in a room visiting with his brother, Brahim, when the commandos broke in, seized Faid and took him to the whirlpool on hold.
Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt / AFP / Getty Images The Minister of Justice stated that the escape took only "a few minutes" and that no one was injured.
Prison guards, who were unarmed, told the officials that they were overwhelmed by heavily armed men and that they could do nothing to prevent Faid from being killed. Escape, said the officials.
The helicopter was found abandoned and burned in Garges-les-Gonesse, a city in the northern suburbs of Paris. Police believe that Faid was transferred to a waiting car, which was also found abandoned.
The hijacked pilot, a member of an airclub near Paris, was released unharmed, said Belloubet.
Belloubet stated that the prison break probably took months to plan and that the authorities suspected Faid's accomplices of carefully staking the jail and possibly used drones to determine the best place to land. 39; helicopter.
Belloubet said the commandos had dropped off the helicopter at the only place in the prison that was not covered by an anti-helicopter net.
"A few months ago, the prison staff said they saw drones flying over the prison," Belloubet said.
Faid's brother, Brahim, was arrested by the authorities for questioning.
IBO / Sipa via AP The break-up of the prison came a little over five years after Faid left Sequedin prison on April 13, 2013. In this leak , Faid used explosives to blow him up. five gates of the prison, taken hostage four guards and used them as human shields while making their way to a vanishing car and fleeing.
He was captured on May 29, 2013, when the authorities found him hiding in a hotel in Pontault-Combault, east of Paris.
Faid is somehow a famous criminal in France. He embarked on a life of crime in the 1990s when he and his gang managed a series of robberies of bank cars and armored cars.
He was arrested in 1998 as a result of a human hunt that followed him to Switzerland and Israel.
Maxppp via ZUMA Press After serving a 10-year prison sentence, Faid wrote a book in 2009 about his criminal life.
Faid is not the first prisoner to escape in a helicopter. His prison break marks the 12th time since 1986 that an inmate in France used a helicopter to flee the prison walls.
The most famous helicopter escape in France occurred in 1986 when Michel Vaujour's wife, Nadine Bourgain, landed at La Sante prison on the left bank of Paris , snatched her husband and flew away. The authorities later learned that Bourgain had spent months before the escape to learn how to fly a helicopter.
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