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 japanese metropolis of Dijon after sawing by way of their cell bars with blades that investigators suspect had been delivered by drone.
Police tracked down the Marseille native some 310 miles south of the jail to a run-down condo complicated within the north of town, identified to be a drug-dealing hotspot.
His fellow fugitive, a 32-year-old man accused of violence in opposition to a associate, was arrested a day after their escape, when law enforcement officials 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 a few of the worst jail overcrowding in Europe, rating third worst after Slovenia and Cyprus, in accordance with a Council of Europe report printed in July. In early October, the nationwide common was 135 inmates per 100 locations accessible. Dijon jail, in-built 1853, is in poor situation, with 311 inmates for 180 locations, in accordance with the justice ministry.
“Old-fashioned” blades
Guards observed 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 long,” in accordance with 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-fashioned, manual saw blades,” and that a number of such blades had been discovered beforehand.
The saws had been doubtless delivered by drones, Caracotch stated following the escape, with a number of people already sentenced over drone deliveries to the identical jail.
This {photograph} taken in Dijon, japanese France, Nov. 27, 2025, reveals the again of the Dijon Jail.
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In early October, French prisons hosted 135 inmates per 100 locations accessible.
The Dijon jail, in-built 1853, is in poor situation, with 311 inmates for 180 locations, in accordance with 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 cellphones 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 12 months 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 12 months, a boss from one in every of Italy’s most violent mafias who escaped from a most safety jail final 12 months by utilizing bedsheets was captured in France, authorities in each international locations stated Friday. Marco Raduano, described as “dangerous” on Europol’s record of Europe’s most needed criminals, was detained in Bastia on the French island of Corsica.
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