Two French prison officers died this Tuesday and three others were injured, one of them seriously, in the violent assault on a police van that was transporting a detainee who finally fled, according to local media.
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According to the versions that have emerged, the men acted with high-caliber weapons, far superior to the hand pistols that the agents had. Two of them died in the shooting and three were injured, while the prisoner and the assailants fled in a vehicle.
An attack of extreme violence on a lieu at the end of a matinée before Val-de-Reuil in the Eure.
Un fourgon pénitentiaire a été pris pour cible et au moins deux agents ont été tués, un détenu a pris la Fuite avec les assaillants.▶ #JT13H #France2tv pic.twitter.com/wk4zpE97nc
— Info France 2 (@infofrance2) May 14, 2024
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced that an important perimeter has been erected to try to stop the assailants and the escaped prisoner, an operation in which some 200 agents participate, in addition to important aerial means such as helicopters.
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“All means will be deployed to find the perpetrators of this crime,” said the president, Emmanuel Macron, in a message on the social network X, who promised to be “relentless.”
The attack of this morning, which is the life of the agents of the administrative administration, is a shock for all of us.
The Nation lies among the côtés of families, des blessés and de leurs collegues.
Tout est mis en œuvre pour retrouver les auteurs de ce crime…
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) May 14, 2024
All means will be implemented to find the perpetrators of this crime.
According to the television network BFMTV, The detainee who escaped is a 30-year-old criminal identified as Mohamed A., sentenced last Tuesday to 18 months in prison for various robberies committed in 2019 under aggravating circumstances.
In addition, Mohamed A. was being prosecuted for an attempted murder committed in the vicinity of Rouen, where the escape took place, and for a voluntary homicide committed in 2022 near Marseille, within the framework of an investigation into drug trafficking.
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According to the television network, Mohamed A. was returning to the Evreux penitentiary center, where he was serving his sentence, after having been interrogated by judges in the morning for the attempted murder near Rouen.
“A prison convoy has been attacked,” Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti wrote on the social network X. “Two of our prison officers died, three are seriously injured,” added the minister, who promised to do “everything” to “find the perpetrators” of the attack.
A local police source had given a report of three dead officers.
The prisoner, who according to investigation sources was born in 1994, was being transported between the cities of Evreux and Rouen, in Normandy, and managed to escape.
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The gang wars in France are spiraling out of control
3 prison guards were killed & 3 were seriously wounded after 4 men armed with Kalashnikovs rammed their van while transporting a gang leader from one prison to another
Mob leader, Mohamed “The Fly” managed to escape pic.twitter.com/gTxoTsmfEA
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 14, 2024
President Emmanuel Macron declared himself “shocked” by the attack, in a message on the X network, and stated that The authorities will be “inflexible” when looking for those responsible.
According to another police source revealed by the AFP news agency, the attack was carried out by a group of individuals using two vehicles. One of these vehicles was found “charred” after the events.
The gendarmerie, for its part, indicated that his elite unit, the GIGN, was going to the place to look for the escaped prisoner, and his accomplices.
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