The escape was discovered this Saturday July 12 in the morning.
An inmate incarcerated at the Corbas remand center, southeast of Lyon, is missing. According to the first elements reported by BFMTV, this twenty-year-old man took advantage of the detention out of his co-cellular, at the end of the pain, to hide in one of the latter’s bags.
The fugitive served several prison sentences and was the subject of a warrant of deposit within the framework of a judicial information in connection with organized crime.
The facts are taken very seriously. The specialized interregional jurisdiction (JIRS), in particular the division of organized and specialized crime, has been seized.
An investigation was opened from the chiefs of an organized gang escape and an association of criminals.
🔴 A prisoner of about 20 years has escaped from Lyon-Corbas prison hiding in the bag of his fellow prisoner, which had just been released. (BFMTV) pic.twitter.com/B4hkHiOSDs
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