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| Frenchies whack foreheads as Basque gunny escapes... |
| 2002-08-22 |
| A suspected Basque terrorist escaped from a high-security Paris prison by switching places with his brother during a visit, prison officials said Thursday. Ismael Berasategui Escudero is a suspected member of the Basque separatist movement ETA. He was arrested May 14 in southern France. The brother who took his place in prison was held Thursday for questioning and could be investigated on charges of helping an escape. His name was not revealed. Simple enough. Keep the brother until the guy either comes back or one or the other dies of old age... The switch at Sante prison took place Saturday but was only discovered Thursday, prison officials said. An investigation was under way into how the brothers escaped prison controls. Inmates at Sante get three visits of 45 minutes each a week. Their hands are stamped with invisible ink before entering the visiting room. After the visit, guards check the ink is still there and that visitors have none on them. Wonder if they're checking the guards' wallets? "There is a natural physical resemblance between the two men, which was reinforced by their thought-out desire to slip our guard," the prison director, Alain Jego, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It's hard to tell them part." Investigators suspect ETA may have directed the escape. And supplied the UV ink as well... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |