an inmate just sentenced to 8 years in prison escapes during a stop at a motorway rest area

During a stop on the A36, the detainee committed “violence on one of the agents” escorting him, before “making two” others fall and fleeing.

A 36-year-old man, who had just been sentenced to eight years in prison by the Besançon Court of Appeal, escaped on Thursday while returning to the Lyon Corbas remand center, the prosecution announced on Friday from Lons-Le-Saunier.

The man, escorted by prison administration officers, had asked to “be able to go to the toilet”, which had led to a “stop at the Bois des Potets motorway area”, on the A36 which connects Besançon to Beaune (Côte-d'Or), explained Julie Fergane, public prosecutor of Lons-Le-Saunier, in a press release.

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During this stop, he committed “violence on one of the agents” escorting him, before “making two” others fall and fleeing, the magistrate said.

During the afternoon, he was sentenced to eight years in prison for acts of “threat”, “unauthorized acquisition and possession of war materials”, “extortion and aggravated extortion”, committed in the Jura in 2020. He was acquitted for criminal conspiracy.

A judicial investigation was opened for “violent escape”. The investigations were entrusted to the Dole research brigade, with the support of the Besançon research section.