At least three French guards were killed, and two others were left wounded, following the attack which saw the assailants and detainee, Mohamed A, managing to escape the scene.
This is the terrifying moment masked gunmen ambushed a prison van at a French tollbooth before shooting dead two guards, freeing a suspected narco boss dubbed 'The Fly' and fleeing on foot.
The inmate, reportedly nicknamed 'La Mouche' , was being transported between the towns of Rouen and Evreux in Normandy before the bloodbath unfolded.Two prison officers were shot dead after four gunmen ambushed their vehicle at the Incarville tollbooth, located in the town of Val-de-Reuil, Normandy, northern France
A police source told Le Parisien that he was 'the head of a narcotics network' in France, and accordingly considered hugely dangerous. At the time of the attack, he was being transferred from one detention centre to another, on a route that should have been secret.According to local reports, the white Audi A5 was found ablaze in nearby Vatteville, Eure.
Amra was being transported between the towns of Rouen and Evreux in Normandy before the bloodbath unfolded at the Incarville tollbooth 'I sincerely hope that the gang of killers who carried out this bloody attack will be quickly arrested. 'Everything is being done to find the perpetrators of this crime so that justice can be done in the name of the French people. We will be intractable.'
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