NOTORIOUS GANGSTER
French police capture ‘jailbreak king’ after months on the run
Crime kingpin Redoine Faid was serving 25 years for a heist and murder before he escaped from a high-security prison
Paris — A gangster who escaped from a French prison by helicopter with the help of an armed commando team was captured by police in an apartment early on Wednesday, ending another chapter in the life of a criminal known as the "jailbreak king". Redoine Faid, who has said his life of crime was inspired by Hollywood movies such as Scarface and Reservoir Dogs, escaped in July from a high-security prison where he was serving 25 years for a heist in which a policewoman was killed. Faid was arrested as he slept at an apartment in Creil, the area where he grew up, an hour’s drive north of Paris. About 50 officers, some of them elite troops, took part in the predawn raid, in which they also arrested a brother of Faid, two other men and a woman, police sources said. Guns were found at the premises, they said. Faid, 46, became a notorious semi-celebrity after penning a tell-all book about his colourful life, describing how he was born into crime in high-rise housing estates of the kind that s...
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