Two men, suspected of being accomplices of Mohamed Amra, who had escaped in May 2024 after the bloody attack of a penitentiary van, were in the course of extradition of Morocco, learned the agency France-Presse (AFP) from a source close to the investigation, Wednesday August 13, confirming information from the information Parisian.
Aimed by arrest mandates, the two men had been arrested in February in Morocco, the day after the arrest in Romania of Mohamed Amra, after nine months of run.
“They will quickly be presented to a judge and will have to answer for their actions”said the Minister of Justice, GĂ©rald Darmanin, on the social network X. “The two alleged accomplices of Mr. Amra, whose cowardly escape cost the lives of two penitentiary agents, have just been extradited to France”wrote the minister in his message, thanking the Moroccan authorities, who have “Make this operation [d’extradition] possible quickly “.
At least 41 implementation
The two men, Alan Gomes, 28, and Albinou da Sylva, 38, were the subject of a red notice from Interpol. Alan Gomes is considered by investigators to be part of the commando who attacked in May 2024 in the Incarville toll (Eure) the penitentiary van in which Mohamed Amra was. After the bloody escape, the two men had fled to Morocco. Both are from Evreux, the base of Mohamed Amra.
At least 41 people are indicted, 30 of which are in pre -trial detention, in this sprawling case which mobilized exceptional means in order to challenge the suspects, some of which were on the run abroad.
The drug trafficker Mohamed Amra, nicknamed “La Mouche”, had escaped on May 14, 2024 during a real ambush during which two penitentiary agents had been slaughtered, and three, seriously injured. His run ended on February 22 in Bucharest on February 22.
Initially detained in CondĂ©-sur-Sarthe (Orne), Mohamed Amra was transferred on July 24 to the ultra-buyed prison in Vendin-le-Vieil (Pas-de-Calais), joining around thirty detainees among “The most dangerous” From France, according to the Keeper of the Seals, the latter being targeted by a complaint for abuse of authority. The complaint, which denounces the criteria for selecting drug traffickers transferred to the high security prison, was sent to the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR), the only body empowered to judge ministers in the exercise of their functions.
