French police on Thursday caught a second inmate who had escaped from jail in late November by sawing by way of cell bars and utilizing bedsheets, sources near the case instructed AFP.
The 19-year-old escapee, suspected in a drug-linked tried homicide case, was discovered within the southern port metropolis of Marseille after Interpol issued a crimson discover for him, two sources near the case instructed AFP, talking on situation of anonymity.
He and one other detainee had fled an overcrowded jail within the jap metropolis of Dijon after sawing by way of their cell bars with blades that investigators suspect have been delivered by drone.
Police tracked down the Marseille native some 310 miles south of the jail to a run-down residence complicated within the north of town, recognized to be a drug-dealing hotspot.
His fellow fugitive, a 32-year-old man accused of violence in opposition to a companion, was arrested a day after their escape, when cops swooped down on a village bar the place he was sipping espresso.
The Dijon public prosecutor’s workplace confirmed Thursday’s arrest to AFP, with out providing additional particulars.
France has among the worst jail overcrowding in Europe, rating third worst after Slovenia and Cyprus, in response to a Council of Europe report revealed in July. In early October, the nationwide common was 135 inmates per 100 locations out there. Dijon jail, in-built 1853, is in poor situation, with 311 inmates for 180 locations, in response to the justice ministry.
“Old style” blades
Guards seen the 2 males had fled from the Dijon jail earlier than daybreak.
The 32-year-old man had left a message in his cell, saying he had been held for “too lengthy,” in response to Dijon’s public prosecutor, Olivier Caracotch. It was not instantly clear for a way lengthy he had been held.
Union official Ahmed Saih, who represents jail officers on the jail, instructed AFP shortly after the breakout that the inmates used “old style, handbook noticed blades,” and that a number of such blades had been discovered beforehand.
The saws have been possible delivered by drones, Caracotch stated following the escape, with a number of people already sentenced over drone deliveries to the identical jail.
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In early October, French prisons hosted 135 inmates per 100 locations out there.
The Dijon jail, in-built 1853, is in poor situation, with 311 inmates for 180 locations, in response to the justice ministry.
Within the week earlier than the breakout, Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin introduced the Dijon facility was scheduled to obtain $7.3 million as a part of a program to eradicate cell phones from six French prisons.
The jail break got here lower than two weeks after one other escape within the northwestern metropolis of Rennes. A 37-year-old convict, who had greater than a yr left to serve for theft, fled on Nov. 14 throughout an outing with fellow prisoners to town’s planetarium. He was later caught within the close by metropolis of Nantes.
Final yr, a boss from certainly one of Italy’s most violent mafias who escaped from a most safety jail final yr through the use of bedsheets was captured in France, authorities in each nations stated Friday. Marco Raduano, described as “harmful” on Europol’s checklist of Europe’s most needed criminals, was detained in Bastia on the French island of Corsica.
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