Overview
- Officers from the Bouches-du-Rhône BRI detained the Marseille-born suspect in the Rosiers complex after BNRF-led tracking executed under a judge’s commission.
- The detainee had been in pretrial detention for attempted assassination and association de malfaiteurs and was deemed potentially dangerous by judicial authorities.
- The pair escaped Dijon jail on 27 November by sawing through cell bars—using blades investigators suspect were delivered by drone—and climbing down on bedsheets.
- The 32-year-old co-escapee was caught within 24 hours in a Saône-et-Loire village bar and now faces additional counts for organised escape and criminal conspiracy.
- Probes into support networks are ongoing, with a 19-year-old arrested in Besançon and a 25-year-old woman already placed under formal investigation for complicity.