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An inmate escaped after a spectacular attack on a prison van in Francein which at least two police officers died, authorities said, promising a vigorous response.
The attack, with a vehicle collision and gunshots, according to police sources, occurred around eleven o’clock in the morning at a toll booth. Incarvillein the Eure region, in the northwest of France.
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“a train penitentiary was attacked“, wrote the Minister of Justice on the social network Eric Dupond-Moretti.
“Two “Of our prison officers who died, three were seriously injured.”added the minister, who promised to do “everything” to “meet for The authors” of the attack.
Gendarmerie source indicated that the balance of the attack, which occurred at the toll Incarvillebetween the cities of Roan It is Évreuxit was fingers dead and three seriously injured, including one in an absolute emergency.
A local police source provided a report from three officers dead.
The prisoner, who according to investigation sources was born in 1994, was being transported between the cities of Évreux It is Roanin Normandyand managed to escape.
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Attack with large caliber weapons
“To achieve this evasion, his accomplices did not hesitate to shoot the bodyguards with large-caliber weapons,” detailed the Minister of Justice.
The president Emmanuel Macron declared “shocked”for the attack, in a message on the X network, and stated that the authorities will be“inflexible” for time to search for the responsible.
According to another police source, the attack was carried out by a group of individuals who used two vehicles. One of these vehicles was found “carbonized” after the fact.
The Minister of the Interior, Gerald DarmaninHe said he gave instructions to mobilize “hundreds of police and gendarmes” and find the perpetrators of the attack.
The gendarmerie noted that its elite unit, the GIGNI was going to the scene to look for the escaped prisonerand his accomplices.
The Minister of Justice stated that this is the first time since 1992 that a police officer penitentiary is murdered during the performance of their duties.
After the attack of van penitentiaryan investigation was opened on Tuesday into “murder and attempted murder in an organized gang (which can be punished with life imprisonment), evasion and organized bandacquisition and possession of a weapon of war and association to commit a crime with a view to for to commit a crime”.
The train penitentiary He had no police escort or gendarmerie, according to a close source. for the case.
The source explained that no escort convoy is used “systematically” in these cases and is only sent for petition of prison administration.
Escort caravans are mainly reserved for highly guarded detainees. AND This was not the case with the detainee who now escapes.
The Fugitive, Mohamed Amrawas born “in March 1994”.
He had been convicted on May 10, 2024 for “A theft” by a court of Évreux and was investigated by a jurisdiction of Marseille (south) to “kidnapping that caused death” said the lawyer Paris is a statement.
Source: Elcomercio
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