French police have captured a teenager who managed to escape from prison last November, as reported by multiple news outlets.
The 19-year-old and a companion, aged 32, broke free from their cells at a prison in Dijon by sawing through the bars and using bed sheets to climb down the walls.
Law enforcement officials stated that the teen was apprehended on Thursday in the neighborhood of Cité des Rosiers, Marseille.
Laurent Núñez, the French Interior Minister, expressed his “sincere congratulations to the National Fugitive Search Brigade for locating the escapee and to the BRI for making the arrest.”
His arrest followed an Interpol red notice, as the AFP agency indicated.
According to Le Monde, the captured teen was in pretrial detention for charges related to attempted murder and criminal conspiracy.
As for the older man who escaped with him, he was caught just a day after their breakout, the report noted.
In recent years, France has witnessed several instances of prison breakouts. Just last July, media sources reported about a man who evaded custody by concealing himself in the bag of another inmate being released.
In a high-profile incident back in 2018, notorious criminal Rédoine Faid managed to escape from a Paris-area prison by helicopter, aided by three armed accomplices.
Faid, who also made headlines for a previous escape in 2013 from a prison near Lille, was apprehended again three months later.
