Gangster Redoine Faid escapes French prison by HELICOPTER with three armed accomplices 'using smoke to bloc...

(Image: AFP)(Image: AFP)(Image: AFP)It is the second time he has escaped from one of the country's prisons - after he blasted through five doors at Sequedin prison in 2013. (Image: AFP)(Image: AFP)(Image: AFP)(Image: AFP)He also confirmed a helicopter had been used in the escape. (Image: AFP)(Image: AFP)(Image: AFP)The chopper, whose pilot may have been taken hostage, had landed in the courtyard at around 11.20am local time, according to French media. (Image: AFP)(Image: AFP)(Image: AFP)They knew where they were going, Mr Karar said. Show moreThis April, he was handed a 25-year prison sentence by an appeals court for a failed armed robbery eight years ago.

French gangster makes dramatic helicopter escape from prison

NewsFrench gangster makes dramatic helicopter escape from prisonA notorious French gangster broke out of prison Sunday morning, when three heavily armed accomplices landed a helicopter in the jail courtyard and flew off with him, according to local reports. Redoine Faïd, 46, had been serving a 25-year sentence at a suburban Paris jail for a 2010 failed robbery in which a 26-year-old police officer was killed. On Sunday morning, three men armed with AK-47s landed a helicopter in the Réau prison courtyard, disabled security cameras and flew off with the French-Algerian gangster in just a few minutes without injuring anyone, prison officials told Le Monde. The helicopter was set afire and found by police hours later, a source told the paper. That same year, he wrote a book describing growing up in Paris's notoriously crime-ridden suburbs and starting his life of delinquency.

Notorious French criminal escapes from prison using helicopter, sparks massive manhunt around Paris

referring to Authorities launched a dragnet around the French capital on Sunday after a notorious criminal serving 25 years for murder used a helicopter Sunday to escape from a prison south of Paris. "An armed commando group landed in the courtyard of the Sud-Francilien prison in Reau while he was in the visitors' room," the prison authority said. CONNECTICUT MAN WHO SHOT PARENTS TO DEATH SENTENCED TO 55 YEARS IN PRISONContinue Reading BelowThe escape on Sunday was the second time Faid had escaped from a French prison. In the 1990s, Faid led a criminal gang involved in armed robbery of banks and armored vans transporting money. He was arrested in 1998 after three years on the run in Switzerland and Israel, according to the French media.

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