Rédoine Faïd has been in police custody since Tuesday morning, January 7, in his prison in Vendin-Le-Vieil (Pas de Calais) according to several corroborating sources to RTL, confirmed by the prosecution. The robber is questioned about several escape plans, particularly for one of them in 2023 while he is incarcerated in Fleury-Merogis (Essonne).
At the time, he was awaiting his trial for his spectacular, successful escape by helicopter from Réau prison (Seine-et-Marne) in 2018. The prosecution confirms that Rédoine Faïd is heard by JUNALCO (National Jurisdiction for the Fight against Organized Crime) under the direction of an investigating judge. The investigation was entrusted to the Yvelines judicial police, who traveled to hear him at his place of detention.
The Paris and JUNALCO public prosecutor's office opened a judicial investigation on September 9, 2021 into the offense of criminal association. Organized gang escape is an offense punishable by 10 years of imprisonment. It is not directly this offense (nor the attempt to commit this offense) which is targeted in the referral to the investigating judge, but the association of criminals with a view to preparing this offense which is, in itself, also a offense punishable by 10 years of imprisonment and a fine of 150,000 euros.
Accustomed to escape plans, Rédoine Faïd had also managed to escape from the Lille-Loos-Sequedin penitentiary center, in the North, on using explosives and after taking four people hostage. A repeat robber, he was sentenced in 2018 to 25 years of criminal imprisonment for organizing an abortive armored van attack in 2010, which still led to the death of a 26-year-old municipal police officer, Aurélie Fouquet.
Read more
