{"id":11244,"date":"2025-11-27T13:40:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/french-prison-escapees-saw-through-bars-used-bed-sheets-in-overnight-breakout\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T13:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:40:44","slug":"french-prison-escapees-saw-through-bars-used-bed-sheets-in-overnight-breakout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/french-prison-escapees-saw-through-bars-used-bed-sheets-in-overnight-breakout\/","title":{"rendered":"French prison escapees saw through bars, used bed sheets in overnight breakout"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LYON (France), Nov 27 — Two detainees at a French jail sawed through the bars of their cell and escaped using bed sheets overnight, a prosecutor said today, in the second such incident in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Guards noticed that they had escaped from the jail in the eastern city of Dijon shortly before dawn, the prison service said, without adding how exactly they made it out.<\/p>\n

The pair “seem to have sawn through bars” and “fled using bed sheets”, Dijon prosecutor Olivier Caracotch said, without providing further details on how exactly they did it.<\/p>\n

The fugitives are a 19-year-old man held in pre-trial detention since October 2024 for attempted murder in a drug-related case, and a 32-year-old man incarcerated since 2023 over threats and violence against a partner, Caracotch said.<\/p>\n

The prison break comes 10 days after another escape in the western city of Rennes.<\/p>\n

A 37-year-old convict, who was supposed to be serving time until early 2027 for theft, fled during an outing with fellow prisoners to the city’s planetarium.<\/p>\n

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It was not immediately clear if he had been caught.<\/p>\n

Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin sacked the prison’s director.<\/p>\n

Three prison director unions on Wednesday lashed out at the tough-talking right-wing minister, who is carrying out a plan to lock up the most dangerous drug traffickers in supermax prisons.<\/p>\n

They accused him of “devoting all the resources of a debt-ridden state” to the high-security prisons for those accused of drug traffickers and jihadist attacks, and neglecting the “vast majority” of other jails.<\/p>\n

“While the justice minister parades around in overfunded facilities, other (prison) services are suffering,” they said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n

France has some of the worst prison overcrowding in Europe, ranking third worst after Slovenia and Cyprus, according to a Council of Europe report published in July.<\/p>\n

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In early October, they hosted 135 inmates per 100 places available.<\/p>\n

Notorious French drug baron Mohamed Amra, known as “The Fly”, was transferred to a new supermax prison in northern France in July.<\/p>\n

Amra made headlines when he escaped in May 2024 at a road toll from a prison van following an attack by suspected accomplices in which two prison guards were killed.<\/p>\n

He was caught in Romania and extradited to France after a months-long manhunt. — AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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LYON (France), Nov 27 — Two detainees at a French jail sawed through the bars of their cell and escaped using bed sheets overnight, a prosecutor said today, in the second such incident in recent weeks. Guards noticed that they had escaped from the jail in the eastern city of Dijon shortly before dawn, the…<\/p>\n

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