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Missing French gangster Redoine Faid has been recaptured after escaping prison in a hijacked helicopter.
Special forces officer broke into a flat near Paris after 4am and arrested Redoine Faid, 46, along with four accomplishments including his brother.
All are believed to have helped evid some of the police who had been involved in a nationwide manhunt.
"The raid took place in the early hours of Wednesday in Creil in the Oise department," said an investigating source.
"Just past 4am, judicial police in the mill district, where the suspect and accomplices were arrested."
The arrest took place in the home where Faid was born and bought up along with his brother, Rachid Faid.
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(Image: REX / Shutterstock)
None of the suspects resisted, although they were found in the property.
Rider Prison, 30 miles north east of Paris, on Sunday July 1.
Two accomplices brandishing Kalashnikovs and using smoke bombs got the convicted murderer and armed robber out before the helicopter was found burnt out to Charles de Gaulle airport.
Faid was serving 25 years for shooting a dead woman and a further 10 years for an earlier prison break.
He had already expressed his desire to settle in Israel, prompting that he had fled to the Middle East.
Faid speaks Hebrew and – in an autobiography published in 2010 – said how disguising himself as an 'ultra-Orthodox Jew' was a perfect way of evading police. He also learned firearms skills off an Israeli Defense Force soldier.
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For the murder of Aurelie Fouquet, May 26, 2010
Last year, Faid was also given 10 years for his escape from Sequedin prison in Lille, northern France, in 2013.
On that occasion he broke out with explosives, and was at one stage with four wardens, before being finally caught.
Beyond being a master of disguise, Faid is obsessed by Hollywood, and often plans his crimes according to what he has seen in hit movies.
In 2009, he directed Michael Mann, the director of the film 'Heat', in which he played masterfully with Robert De Niro.
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(Image: AFP)
During the encounter in Paris, Faid, who was already a notorious robber, told Mann: 'You were my technical advisor'.
Paris prosecutors have described a six-year-old man who has been in the supermarket shopping trolley full of food.
They said it was 'extremely dangerous' and that huge care should be taken by anyone approaching him. In 'Robber', his 2010 book, he claimed he had given up crime.
