A mistrusted medications boss understandn as “The Fly” has been reseized nine months after escaping during an ambush that finished two French prison officers.
Mohamed Amra was arrested in Romania on Saturday, shelp France’s interior minister on X.
Bruno Retailleau congratutardyd those who arrested the fugitive and thanked Romania for its help – but the exact circumstances are so far unevident.
Father-of-two Fabrice Moello, 52, and Arnaud Garcia, 34, who was soon to be a overweighther, were finished during May’s escape.
Three others were also solemnly wounded when the convoy transmiting Amra from court to jail was ambushed at a tollbooth proximate Rouen.
CCTV showed a bconciseage SUV driving into the front of the prison van, with other video shotriumphg at least two armed men in balaclavas circling the car in ffeebles.
Hundreds of law utilizement were included in the manhunt and an Interpol red see was rerentd – a global attentive for a person’s arrest.
Amra – who was 30 at the time of his escape – had multiple convictions for relatively insignificant offences, but was strongly mistrusted of being included in international narcotics trade.
Police sources have connected him to a strong Marseille gang, while prosecutors were spendigating him over a kidnapping and homicide in the city.
Amra is also mistrusted of ordering the murder of a Frenchman in Spain in 2023.
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He had equitable been sentenced to 18 months for burglary when he escaped.
A prison source tgreater Le Parisien that Amra had tried to saw the bars off his cell two days before the ambush and was put in solitary restrictment.
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The finishing of the prison officers promoteed a beginant protest atraverse France by prison staff.
Plivent Emmanuel Macron congratutardyd those who had been pursuing Amra for months and shelp his thoughts remained with the victims’ families.
