France: So, Redon Faid managed to escape by helicopter

The story is good for a thriller: The criminal Redoine Faid escaped with a helicopter from a detention center in France. Now the authorities have said how escape could succeed. As a result, an armed commando landed in the prison yard.

The court is the only place in the prison that is not equipped with anti-aircraft mosquito nets and can not be seen from the watchtowers, according to the French newspaper Le Monde.

Thus, the men who jumped out of the helicopter were dressed in black and wore police armbands. They sprayed tear gas and threatened police with assault rifles. Then they opened the door of the visiting room where Faid was staying, whom his brother was visiting. The command released Faid, and the police began a big manhunt. The brother was arrested according to Le Monde.

The police later found the helicopter in Gonesse, about 60 kilometers from the prison. The fugitives apparently tried to fire the helicopter, but they failed.

Police said that the helicopter had been stolen early in the morning from Fontenay-Trésigny, southeast of Paris. The pilot was temporarily taken hostage by Fatd's accomplices, but later released. The man is shocked and hospitalized.

Extra Escapade with a Black Renault

De Gonesse, Faid and his accomplices fled in a black Renault Megane, which was found later burned in the parking lot of a shopping center in the area. "All the forces have been mobilized to find the fugitive," said the French Ministry of the Interior. The search and controls considered "the danger of the fugitive and his potential accomplices".

Faïd, who claimed to have committed several robberies, had spectacularly fled five years ago from a detention center in northern France. 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 slipped into 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 is arrested with an accomplice in a hotel near Paris

The recidivist is a celebrity in France. Eight years ago, the son of the immigrant, who grew up in the northern suburbs of Paris, published a book on his "career" as a specialist in the theft of money carriers. He poked through talk shows, reporting that he had been inspired by films such as "Scarface" and "Heat".

However, a year later, Faïd was arrested for violating his probation obligations following his conviction had been made due to several raids on banks and cash in transit. In April, an appeal court sentenced Faïd to 25 years in prison for attempting a robbery that killed a police officer.