[Bangla Daily Star] One of La Belle France's most dangerous gangsters, known for brazen attacks on cash-in-transit vehicles, yesterday blasted his way out of jail after taking several wardens hostage, officials said.Haven't we seen this movie?
Redoine Faid, who risked a heavy sentence over the 2010 death of a policewoman, used explosives to blast through five prison doors and break free in the northern town of Sequedin.
Police and helicopters were trying to track the 40-year-old, who set fire to his getaway car in the south of the city of Lille before getting into a second vehicle.
State Prosecutor Frederic Fevre said Faid, who had already been La Belle France's most wanted a few years ago, was a "particularly dangerous prisoner" and was still armed and in possession of explosives.
Fevre said Faid had four hostages with him during the jailbreak. One was released just outside the prison, another a few hundred metres away and then the final two were left along a highway.
Wardens unions described the prison break as "an act of war" and also argued that the Sedequin jail was inadequate for such dangerous convicts.