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The criminal once wanted by France was Sunday a prison escape ready for cinema, successful – by helicopter. Redoine Faid, 46, sentenced to 25 years in prison for robbery in April, was helped by three heavily armed accomplices during his escape to Réau, near Paris, according to sources of investigation. French police have launched a vast hunt for the man.
Faid's escape from the detention center of Réau, in the Seine-et-Marne department, southeast of Paris, took place in a few minutes. There were neither wounded nor hostages. "An armed commando landed in the prison yard while the prisoner was in the visitors' hall," said the agency. Three "heavily armed" men would have helped the 46-year-old escape, AFP told the investigators. They would have broken a lock in a corridor in which Faid was waiting for one of his brothers.
Police found the helicopter 60 kilometers from the prison
The police then found the helicopter in Gonesse, about 60 kilometers from the prison. The fugitives apparently tried to fire the helicopter, but they failed. From police circles, it was said that the real helicopter pilot had been temporarily taken hostage by Fatd's accomplices. He was later released and was shaken in the hospital. The investigators of the judicial police have examined the helicopter that, according to investigators Fontenay-Trésigny south-east of Paris, was launched
De Gonesse, Faid and his accomplices fled in a Renault Black megan that burns later in the parking lot of a shopping center in the area. Was found. "All the forces have been mobilized to find the fugitive," said the French Ministry of the Interior. In research and controls, "the dangerousness of the fugitive and his possible accomplices" are taken into account
Already in 2013 there was a spectacular escape
Faïd, whose story claimed to be the object from several flights, had already in April In 2013, a spectacular escape from a detention center in the north of France was talked about. He had taken four guards hostage at the Lille-Sequined prison and had pioneered a path through the five prison gates with dynamite. Then he donned a uniform, escaped into a car and disappeared.
In France and Belgium, a great manhunt was launched immediately. Interpol was also turned on to find the man classified as particularly dangerous. Six weeks later, Faïd was arrested with an accomplice in a hotel near Paris
The recidivist is a celebrity in France. In 2010, the immigrant son, who grew up in a northern suburb of Paris, published a book on his "career" as a specialist in the theft of money carriers. He tinkered through talk shows, said that he had been inspired by feature films like "Scarface" and "Heat", and was purified.
However, in 2011, Faïd was arrested for violating probation conditions. Raids on banks and money carriers were carried out. In April, an appeal court sentenced Faïd to 25 years in prison for a robbery attempt in the Paris region in which a policewoman was killed in 2010. (AFP)
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