"Defective" security may have helped a helicopter jailbreak: the French minister

Paris (AFP) – The French government has reported possible security breaches Monday after a notorious gangster used a helicopter to hold his second cheeky jailbreak of a criminal career inspired by movies like "Scarface"

. of Redoine Faid, who was serving a 25-year sentence for an armed robbery in which a policewoman was killed, left the French authorities blushing.

Faid came out of a Paris prison by two accomplices who used smoke bombs. Justice Ministers Nicole Belloubet told Europe 1 radio that she had sent a team of inspectors to the prison "to see if the security measures were defective so that we could

She suggested that leaving Faid in the same prison for "a few months" was a mistake

"We must be careful not to leave the same people in the same places for too long, when dealing with this"

"The rotation should probably be more frequent," she said.

Faid's accomplices hijacked a helicopter from a flight school Sunday morning and forced the terrified instructor to take them to school. Two soldiers dressed in assault rifles then fired smoke bombs before using power tools to enter the prison's parlor, where Faid was talking to his brother.

The guards, who were not armed, fled and set off the alarm. But within 10 minutes, Faid had escaped. The helicopter was then found in a northeastern suburb of Paris about 60 kilometers from the prison

The pilot, who had been beaten, was found in a state of shock

The men then continued their escape. by car, changing vehicles en route. The first car was found burned in a shopping mall parking lot.

Belloubet said Sunday that the group had probably used drones to implant the prison

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Faid has been behind bars since mid-2011 for violating parole conditions due to prior convictions for bank robbery and shameless contravention of CIT vehicles

. 2013 jailbreak, he briefly took four guards hostage with a gun before escaping in a waiting car waiting. All the hostages were released unharmed.

Six weeks later he was taken back to a hotel in the suburbs of Paris.

Faid, who has a cult in the multiethnic suburbs of Paris where he grew up, was

The police nicknamed him "The Author" for two books that he co-authored writings on his delinquent youth.

At a film festival in Paris in April 2009, Faid approached Michael Mann, director of the 1995 "Heat" gangster film starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, telling him, "You were my Technical Adviser."

He wrote that he had watched the film dozens of times to perfect his bank robbery prowess.