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PARIS – A notorious French criminal who served 25 years of murder escaped from prison on Sunday after one year Helicopter carrying several heavily armed commandos landed in a yard. This was the second bold escape of Redoine Faid who, once released from another prison with explosives hidden in tissue bundles, escaped
His last escape from Reau prison lasted only a few minutes, the French Ministry of Justice said. Unarmed guards said that they could not do anything to stop it.
Dressed all in black, two commandos wearing ski masks and police armbands entered the prison to search Faid. They used a shredder to open the door of the visiting room, BFM TV spokesman Martial Delabroye, a representative of the guards' union, told BFT television.
Commandos used smoke cartridges to hide video cameras, and the helicopter landed only part of the complex that was not covered by an anti-helicopter net, said another member from the union, Loic Delbroc.
When the helicopter arrived, Faid was meeting his brother in the visiting room. The police took the brother into custody
A third commando held the pilot under the threat of a weapon, said members of the union
French media reported that the three men took the pilot hostage in a flying club in the Paris region. He was later released without physical injury.
The helicopter was found dead in the town of Garges-les-Gonesse, in the northern suburbs of Paris. The police union said that Faid entered a car in a nearby car park, where the police lost track of him.
French Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet said drones had been spotted a few months earlier. Prosecutors have opened a new investigation into Faid, 46, who was serving a sentence for the death in 2010 of a young police officer killed during a failed theft. Investigators interrogated his brother Sunday afternoon
After his 2013 escape, Faid was arrested in a hotel six weeks later.
In the 1990s, he led a gang to rob banks and armored vans. He was arrested in 1998 after three years of flight in Switzerland and Israel, according to the French media.
Faid was released in 2009 after serving ten years. At that time, he swore that he had changed his life, wrote a confession book about his life of crime and began a massive media tour in 2010.
Yet, he was the alleged mastermind of the attempt Armed robbery in 2010 led to a high speed chase and shootings with the police who killed Aurélie Fouquet, 26. He was arrested in 2011.
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