Placed in police custody this Tuesday, January 7 for having once again imagined escape plans, Rédoine Faïd, aged 52, explained his plans. If he disputes the facts, a notebook, in which details of his escape plans are written, was seized by investigators.
On Tuesday January 7, the man nicknamed the “king of escape”, Rédoine Faïd, was placed in police custody. Investigators accuse him of plans to escape from Fleury-Mérogis prison where he was detained in 2023 according to the Parisian. Investigators discovered a notebook in which Faïd, known for his escapes in 2013 and 2018, had made drawings and escape diagrams.
An escape with the French Pablo Escobar
The first escape preparation dates from 2021. Rédoine Faïd planned to escape with Kevin D., a powerful drug lord, nicknamed the French Pablo Escobar. The two men had planned an escape from Réau prison with explosives and corruption.
Surveillance is reinforced between the two men and the Paris prosecutor’s office opens a judicial investigation for criminal conspiracy with a view to preparing crimes or offenses. It is in 2023 that Kevin D. will reveal having been “tested by Faïd”. On the other hand, he declares that he “would never have considered taking action.” In his defense, Rédoine Faïd declared during his hearing that Kevin D. would have invented everything in order to be transferred to another remand center.
Helicopter escape, explosion and Kalashnikovs
Another plan had been described in the notebook of around forty pages by Rédoine Faïd. A notebook that he allegedly gave to another inmate at Fleury-Mérogis prison, named Christophe, known for “extortion, willful violence and threats”.
-According to the scenario that Faïd would have described, four accomplices had to steal a helicopter, then parked above the prison, then two commandos had to abseil onto the roof of the prison while another had to shoot into the void with his weapon to distract.
Christophe then had to blow up the window of the search room and then the door to Faïd’s cell, where the latter took care to slip a newspaper so that it would be recognizable. The two men then fled through the air. Here again, Christophe says he never intended to participate in this plan and that he pretended to be receptive.
While in police custody, Rédoine Faïd declared that he would have deliberately slipped this notebook to the detainee in order to be denounced by the latter and to speed up his transfer to a central center.
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