The notorious French prisoner Redoine Faid makes a daring escape by helicopter carrying commandos

PARIS – A notorious French criminal serving 25 years of murder escaped bravely from prison on Sunday after a helicopter carrying several heavily armed commandos landed in a yard, l. released from a visiting room and took him away. This was the second bold escape of Redoine Faid, who escaped from a different prison with explosives hidden in sacks of cloth.

His last escape from Reau prison took "only a few minutes", according to the French Ministry of Justice. . "Everything is done to locate the fugitive," a senior official of the Ministry of the Interior (19659003) told Reuters. Dressed in black, two commandos wearing balaclavas and police armbands entered the prison. look for Faid. They used a grinding machine to open the parlor door, said Martial Delabroye, a representative of the guards union, on BFM television

The commandos used smoke cartridges to hide from video cameras, and the 39, helicopter landed in the cabin. According to Loic Delbroc, another union member, only part of the complex was not covered by an anti-helicopter net. When the helicopter arrives, Faid meets his brother in the visiting room. A third commando was holding the pilot under the threat of a weapon, union members said.

French media reported that the three men took the pilot hostage in a flying club in the Paris region.

The helicopter was found burned in the city of Garges-les-Gonesse, in the northern suburbs of Paris. Faid reportedly taken by car with his accomplices

French prosecutors 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 robbery missed. Investigators interviewed his brother Sunday afternoon

After his escape in 2013, Faid was arrested six weeks later in a hotel.

In the 1990s, he led a gang in the theft of armored vans and 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.