Masked gunmen ambushed a French prison van, killing two guards, to free a suspected drug dealer on Tuesday, 14 May.
CCTV footage showed an SUV ramming into the prison van at a toll booth before men attacked it with automatic weapons and took an inmate out of the vehicle before setting it on fire and fleeing the scene.
A major manhunt was triggered by the incident in Val-de-Reuil in the Eure region.
The inmate is Mohamed Amra – also known as “The Fly”, a 30-year-old drug dealer from northern France, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office and police sources.
He was convicted of burglary on 10 May and was being held at the Val-de-Reuil prison.
