three prisoners escaped from a french prison in a hollywood style

[Lotfi-dz]

Three prisoners have escaped by helicopter from a jail in the south of France, prison authorities said.
An accomplice hijacked the helicopter from an airfield at nearby St Tropez and forced its pilot to fly to the prison in Draguignan.

The helicopter landed in a courtyard of the prison that had no protective netting overhead.

The three inmates - who are described as "dangerous" - jumped aboard and it took off before guards had time to react, prison officials and local police said.

"The whole thing was over in a flash," a prison guard said.

Getaway car waiting

The helicopter landed some 60 kilometres (37 miles) from the jail near the village of Auribeau-sur-Siagne, where the pilot was released and a getaway car was waiting.

After the escape prison officials immediately dispatched search teams around the region.


The convicts have been identified as Emile Forma-Sari and Jean-Philippe Lecase - both of whom are Corsican - and Abdelhamid Carnous, whose nationality was not immediately known, but believed to be an algerian.

All three were convicted of armed robberies and other crimes and one of the men was serving a sentence until 2012, police said.



A similar attempted jailbreak in eastern France in July failed when a helicopter landed on a prison roof but set off alarms.

[Lotfi-dz]

this happened some time ago, the reason that i have posted it again is that one of the 3 men has been arrested

Pure class

[mouhajir]

so old story man