Hundreds of law enforcement officers have been deployed to find a criminal known as “The Fly” and the gunmen who helped him escape from a prison van in France on Tuesday morning in a brazen raid that left two prison officers dead and another three seriously injured.
The inmate, 30-year-old Mohamed Amra, was being transported from a court appearance back to a prison in Évreux in the northwestern Normandy region when a car rammed into the van at a toll booth. The armed criminals then opened fire.