Huge manhunt in France for prisoner after two officers killed in ambush | DW News

authorities in France are hunting gunmen who ambushed a prison van to free a convicted drug dealer two jail guards were killed and three wounded the inmate nicknamed The Fly was being taken back to prison from a court hearing the shooters came late in the morning and struck at a toll booth in northern France a car filled with several people rammed a police Convoy and then they opened fire this footage taken by a passenger in passing bus captures the moment on camera the attacker set free a prisoner under investigation for kidnapping and homicide in another city he was being transported to evro jail after a court hearing in normandy’s capital an elite police unit and hundreds of security forces have been deployed to search for the gunman I want to say that everything and I mean everything will be done to find the perpetrators of this despicable crime these are people for whom life means nothing they will be arrested they will be tried they will be punished according to the crime they have committed the French National Assembly held a moment of silence for the slain officers France’s prime minister also spoke on the floor this morning in the ER region the Republic was attacked it’s the Republican order that has been targeted our Justice our refusal of impunity Tuesday’s Convoy attack marked the first time prison officers have been killed on the job in 30 years a massive search for Suspects continues tww correspondent Lisa Lewis joins us now from Paris with the latest Lisa what’s the what do you know about the surge for these attackers well the search is still ongoing hundreds of johnarm police officers are deployed forensics are at the scene they’ have been talking to possible Witnesses trying to find you know an indication where these people might have fled to now the question is obviously are they hiding somewhere in the or have they have they gone really far the forensics and the police are already also looking into two cars that have been left behind burned and they’re trying to follow up on who these people were you know part obviously from uh the prisoner who was freed during that attack who is the man they freed and do we know anything about the people who carried out the attack well very little is known about the people who carried out the attack but we know that the prison who was freed was a 30-year-old man who had been convicted in 13 different cases nonrelated to the drug traffic as the prosecutor said tonight but he had also been placed under investigation in other cases including for including for charges such as murder attempted murder kidnapping Etc and a police source told me earlier today that he was uh the local head of a an organ ized crime ring and that he had links to the drug traffic in Marseilles investigators obviously trying to find out more and now a new investigation has been opened regarding uh today’s events for murder attempted murder and the possession of a an arm of War as the government as the authorities are calling this uh you know numerous people have come out today saying This is really shocking this is the first time since 1992 that a pron guard was killed at that time that was during a prison break now uh because a prisoner had been freed while he was being transported from a tribunal back to the prison so how have the police and the government responded to this well the police are still you know trying frantically to to find these people we don’t actually know exactly how many people we’re talking about politicians have come out during the day saying our thoughts are with the family we really think of also the police officers that have been injured two two prison guards were killed during the attacks the attack three others were injured two of them uh you know are in a severe condition and all of these five people are fathers we heard tonight so you know the the politicians all the politicians from the opposition from the government even IM Mar has come out the president France have come out they’ve said you know we will do everything to fight these people and bring them to justice DW correspondent Lisa Lewis thank you so much

French police hunted Tuesday for a group of gunmen who killed two prison officers in an attack on a highway toll booth that freed a convict linked to gangland drug murders.

President Emmanuel Macron vowed that everything would be done to find those behind the attack, with the inmate also still at large, as well as those who helped him escape.

Two prison guards were killed in the attack and three others were wounded. Another was fighting for his life in hospital and two others were in critical condition.

The inmate was being transported back to his prison in the town of Evreux after being questioned by a judge in the regional center of Rouen in Normandy. The prosecutor said the prison van was rammed head-on by a stolen Peugeot as it passed through the toll booth. But the prison van was also followed by an Audi, from which gunmen emerged and fired at both vehicles in the prison convoy.

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46 comments

  3. Europe really needs to start taking its security more seriously. If they aren’t careful, they will find they no longer have control of their country like in Latin America or Africa.

  4. Drug smuggling in Europe is really getting to be a problem. The gangs are starting to act like Latin American cartels.

  17. Who is Mohamed Amra? He is a brave descendant of the Gauls, he is descended from Vercingetorix, can't you see?

  18. Why were these vehicles not armoured?? I can’t believe the stupidity of the people that are running our countries. I’m sure President Macron has an armoured vehicle!! Is there no European country that is run by people with brains!!! My sympathies go to the loved ones of the deceased, god bless🙏🏻

  30. France and Algeria are like peanut butter jam. Same place that gave you Zidane and Benzema. You can't blame this on immigration

  32. Mohamed don't sound very European.
    Best the government can offer at the moment will be flying of rainbow flags while allowing more in unchecked.

  34. Something like this could never happen in the usa. This is the difference between the usa and the rest of the world. The criminals understand in the usa if they even try to attempt something like this and got away with it the entire criminal underworld will have the full weight of the usa government destroying there operation until all qho were involved are handed over to the authorities 💯💯💯💯💯

  37. They keep saying a car. Does no one noticed the second vehicle, ambush from the rear. It was also the escape vehicle

  42. Criminals are now laughing at the incompetence of the French and their police force. They need to show that they have what it takes to keep law and order in the face of the rampant criminal activities in France.

  43. They will be arrested, they will be tried, they will be convicted and punished according to the crime they committed, and then they will escape from a police van while being transported.

  45. And you wonder why these criminals have weapons when the loss restrict him from doing it not the first time that criminals have guns in France this makes you question who is really under control

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