Two jail officers have been killed and three others significantly injured Tuesday at a motorway tollbooth in northwest France in an assault on their van transporting an inmate. The latter, Mohamed Amra, continues to be on the run, as are his accomplices.
The assault befell shortly after 11:00 native time on the Incarville motorway tollbooth, when the inmate was being transferred from Evreux jail to the Rouen courtroom (northwest of Paris). In keeping with a police supply, the assault was carried out by a commando of a number of criminals who used two autos. One in all these autos was discovered shortly after the incident, “charred”.
The fugitive detainee, Mohamed Amra, is 30 years outdated. He was convicted on Might 10, 2024 for “a housebreaking” by a courtroom in Evreux and he was indicted by a courtroom in Marseille (south) for “kidnapping and sequestration resulting in loss of life”, specified the Paris prosecutor in a press launch.
In keeping with a supply near the case, Mohamed Amra, concerned in drug trafficking, is suspected of getting ordered murders linked to this trafficking. He’s the top of a community, in line with one other supply near the matter.
The detainee’s lawyer, Me Hugues Vivier, declared on BFM TV that his consumer had tried to flee by sawing the bars of his cell on the Evreux remand middle. “There was apparently a disciplinary process deliberatee,” he stated.
Following the assault on the jail van, an investigation was opened on Tuesday to “homicide and tried homicide by an organized gang, escape and arranged gang, acquisition and possession of weapons of struggle, legal affiliation with a view to the fee of a criminal offense“.
