“He took advantage of a blind spot in the exercise yard to escape the old-fashioned way, by climbing the fence surrounding the exercise yard with a sheet and then the perimeter wall of the detention center. in less than three minutes, ”according to video surveillance, said a prison union source.
“This dangerous man, who opened fire on several occasions during extortion, is actively sought”, added David Charmatz, public prosecutor in Saint-Etienne.
Indicted Monday evening like his 15-year-old companion by an investigating judge for “attempted extortion with a weapon and theft with a weapon”, he had been remanded in custody at the La Talaudière detention center, near Saint -Etienne. The teenager had for her part been released under judicial supervision in a home of the Judicial Protection of Youth.
“Bonnie & Clyde”
The arrest by the gendarmerie on January 29 in La Fouillouse (Loire), of this couple nicknamed “Bonnie & Clyde” by the investigators, intervened after they had chased in the car a seller of contraband cigarettes on a highway of the Stephanoise region. They then hit their victim’s vehicle while opening fire on it to seize the cargo.
The previous weekend, they had tried to seize a German sedan in Feurs (Loire) under threat by shooting several times in the direction of its owner, without reaching him. “In both cases they had come into contact with the victims by Internet, seeking to trap them during their meeting”, according to the prosecutor Charmatz.