Super-Criminal Escapes French Prison With Explosives, Getaway Car
A French inmate who has been described as a "super-criminal" used explosives to hold several prison guards hostage before making his escape.
Redoine Faid, the super-criminal, escaped from a French prison over the weekend after taking several prison guards hostage. He then used explosives to destroy a number of locked doors before making his escape.
"It all happened very quickly. The escape was clearly very well organized– we are still busy trying to work out the facts," a prison spokesman told Daily Mail.
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Faid took one hostage with him as he left the prison and was able to use a car to escape, according to reports. He is thought to have driven off in the direction of the French town of Lille.
Faid then obtained another vehicle and left the hostage and the first car on the side of the road. No one was reported injured in the escape, but officials did state that a warrant for Faid's arrest was issued in 26 countries and that Faid should be considered armed and dangerous.
It had been previously reported that Faid was trying to turn his life around, but that all ended in 2011, when he was back in prison for a 2010 robbery that resulted in the death of a 26-year-old policewoman.
This was not Faid's first time in prison, as he was arrested in 1998 after three years on the run in Switzerland and Israel, according to French media.
Faid was freed after serving 10 years of his 31-year sentence, which is when he declared he was turning his life around. He wrote confessional book about his life of crime and went on an extensive media tour.
"When I was on the run, I lived all the time with death, with fear of the police, fear of getting shot," he told Europe 1 radio at the time.
