Redoine Faid: Helicopter trip to Paris for gangster

A notorious gangster escaped by helicopter from a prison in the Paris region, according to French authorities

Redoine Faid was helped by several heavily armed men who made diversion to the scene. entrance to the jail while the helicopter landed in the yard.

The helicopter flew to the nearby area of ​​Gonesse. He was later found burned by the local police.

Faid, 46, is serving a 25-year jail sentence for failed robbery during which a police officer was killed.

This is his second incarceration: in 2013, he escaped after taking four guards hostage as human shields and destroyed a number of gates.

He escaped less than half an hour after arriving in a prison in northern France. .

In 2009, he wrote a book about his experiences growing up in the suburbs of Paris, where he grew up in crime.

He claimed to have turned his back on the crime, but a year later he was involved in the crime. armed robbery for which he was imprisoned in the prison of Réau in Seine-et-Marne

Faid and his accomplices fled the prison yard – which was not protected by a net – without hurting anyone, reports the French news site Europe 1. [19659019] Robber and jailbreaker

Born in 1972 He lives in a notoriously rough suburb of Paris where he settles into a life of crime.

In the 1990s, he led a gang of armed robbery and extortion in Paris. In 2001, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison for armed robbery.

French police believe that Faid was the brains behind a robbery in 2010 in which a policewoman was killed but he was sentenced for the crime only in April.

He was readmitted in 2011 for violating parole conditions.

In 2013, he escaped from the North-French prison at Sequedin Prison, near Lille, taking four guards hostage, but was retaken six weeks later.

Last year, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. prison break.