{"id":26425,"date":"2023-10-27T07:15:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T11:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=26425"},"modified":"2023-10-27T07:15:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T11:15:18","slug":"redoine-faid-frances-jailbreak-king-gets-more-jail-time-for-helicopter-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2023\/10\/27\/redoine-faid-frances-jailbreak-king-gets-more-jail-time-for-helicopter-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00e9doine Fa\u00efd: France’s jailbreak king gets more jail time for helicopter escape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A French armed robber who staged a spectacular jailbreak by helicopter has been handed an extra 14 years behind bars by a Paris court.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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R\u00e9doine Fa\u00efd drew inspiration for his criminal career from French and American gangster films.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He was eventually caught after his dramatic 2018 escape from R\u00e9au prison in the southern Paris outskirts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Two brothers, three nephews and a convicted member of the Corsican underworld were also in the dock.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The break-out was Fa\u00efd’s second successful humiliation of the French prison system. In April 2013 he used smuggled explosives and a gun to spring himself from Sequedin prison in the north, before being recaptured the next month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On 1 July 2018 three armed accomplices commandeered a helicopter and ordered its pilot to land in a courtyard inside R\u00e9au jail. After they let off smoke bombs to confuse guards, one of the men – identified as Fa\u00efd’s elder brother Rachid – used a disc-grinder to cut through doors leading to the visiting room.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Fa\u00efd was at that moment receiving a visit from another brother, Brahim. Inmates of the prison cheered as the helicopter took off with its new passenger. The whole operation took less than 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This time Fa\u00efd spent three months on the run. But police eventually traced him to his home town of Creil, north of Paris, where he was seen moving around dressed as a woman in a Muslim burqa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The commandeered helicopter was later found abandoned in Gonesse, north of Paris (Image: Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt \/ AFP)<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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For Fa\u00efd, who was once described in a police profile as a “social predator” and a “gifted manipulator”, the seven-week trial was a rare chance – after years in solitary confinement – to perform before a jury and present a romanticised version of his criminal past.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On his first appearance in the special courtroom, the same used in recent terrorist trials, he joked that he had put on running shoes for the occasion: “Because you never know. The light goes out, and then when it goes on again, puff – I’m gone!”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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