The fugitive and his companion, who had taken Tuesday on one of the prison agents who escorted him, were found on Sunday west of Düsseldorf.
Le Monde
They spent Christmas on the rider before being caught up: the detainee who had escaped from the Pontoise Hospital Tuesday night and his companion who had shot on one of the prison agents who escorted him were arrested Sunday, December 26 in Germany.
The fugitive, 28 years old, and the young woman, minor according to the pontoon parquet, were “very quickly localized”, according to a source close to the folder.
“The German authorities have arrested the fugitive and his concubine around 15:30 in Wegberg,” a city west of Düsseldorf, close to the border of the Netherlands, “said Pontoise’s prosecutor, stating that” The interpellation took place without difficulty “. “German investigators are in contact with their French counterparts as part of the extradition request,” he added.
There is “no third person sought” at this point, according to a judicial source, while the first investigative elements provided by a police source showed a second accomplice watching.
Five Day Cavale
This is the information of the National Fugitive Research Brigade (BNRF), the service of the French judicial police specialized in this type of investigation, which made it possible to put an end to this short five-day, according to a police source.
The detainee had arrived on Tuesday night, around 9:30 pm, at the Pontoise Hospital Center, to be neat of a deep notch on the arm. A simulacrum of suicide attempt with the sole purpose of obtaining medical extraction. Three penitentiary agents, seconded by firefighters, had released it a few minutes earlier of his cell from the nearby Osny home where he was incarcerated since the October 1 in a survey For assassination.
On the parking lot, a woman with a long weapon was waiting for them closely. The accomplice, after having asked that his companion be detached, had fired on one of the officials, not armed like his colleagues. Protected by his bulletproof vest and injured slightly by “30 leads of lead, superficial, in the lower back”, according to a police source, he had been briefly hospitalized in observation.
The BNRF and the PJ of Versailles have been Cosaisies of the survey in open judicial information on Friday.
Detention not reported
In questioning the absence of weapon port among agents, the Ministry of Justice explained that “the level of risk is to be placed in the context”, with “two escapes in 2020 out of 54,371 medical extractions” . In 2021, for eight of the thirteen listed escapes, including Osny’s, the inmate took advantage of a transfer to the hospital to be beautiful.
The escapee of Osny, suspected of killing Valenton (Val-de-Marne) a young man 18 years old on the night of September 28 to 29, and sentenced to multiple occasions, especially for offenses roads and facts of aggravated violence, was not classified as a particularly reported prisoner (DPS).
Since a circular of October 2019, medical extractions are provided by “local prison security teams [ELSP] deployed on the territory, trained and entitled to the weapon port,” according to the Chancery. But on December 13, only 519 penitentiary staff were entitled to weapons, divided into 51 local prison security teams, she added.
Slowing through the health crisis, these courses “must be accelerated in 2022” with 216 agents trained next year in the jurisdiction of the Paris Interregional Directorate, including Osny Prison, according to the Chancery.