investigators on the path of fugitives, Interpol mobilized | EUROtoday

Published on : 05/16/2024 – 08:01Modified : 05/16/2024 – 09:10

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Prime Minister Gabriel Attal warned the fugitives: “We are tracking you.” Nearly 48 hours after the spectacular assault on a jail van, which left two officers lifeless and three critically injured on Tuesday May 14, police and gendarmes tried on Thursday to observe the path of the escaped inmate and his accomplices.

“The investigation is progressing” and mobilizing “massive resources”, assured the Prime Minister on Wednesday May 15 afternoon earlier than the National Assembly, repeating as soon as once more to the perpetrators of those bloody crimes: “we are going to discover you and we are going to punish you “.

The hunt is also organized outside the borders, with a “pink discover” issued by Interpol at the request of the French authorities to locate the fugitive, Mohamed Amra.

Union mobilizations in front of prisons

Shocked by the murder of two of their colleagues, the prison administration agents for their part called for the continuation on Thursday of the movement to block establishments started the day before, to “preserve strain” on the federal government.

In Caen, the place the 2 victims of the assault on Tuesday in Eure have been based mostly, round forty employees from the day shift have been gathered round 6:30 a.m. in the primary courtyard of the penitentiary focus on pallets, famous the AFP.

“The movement is renewed, there will be a discussion between the national and local union authorities” to debate the continuation of the motion, the UFAP-Justice regional secretary advised AFP.

The union representatives, who have been obtained on Wednesday in Paris by the Minister of Justice, welcomed the opening of dialogue on a few of their calls for.

“A certain number of commitments will be made quickly” by the ministry, particularly to enhance the arming of brokers throughout transfers, and to restrict these transfers by creating judicial hearings by videoconference, declared Emmanuel Baudin, secretary normal of FO Justice, following the assembly with Eric Dupond-Moretti.

But they demanded a written doc, on which the brokers will probably be consulted, earlier than ceasing their actions.

“A simple Sig Sauer against weapons of war”

At daybreak on Wednesday, lots of of jail officers blocked actions of their institutions to demand extra assets, earlier than observing a minute of silence in reminiscence of the 2 officers killed the day earlier than on the Incarville tollbooth (Eure) by a closely armed commando.

Faced with their attackers, the brokers solely had “a simple Sig Sauer (a handgun, Editor's note) against weapons of war”, was indignant Frédéric Liakhoff, FO-Justice secretary on the Caen penitentiary heart, the place each victims have been based mostly.

The detainee on the run, Mohamed Amra, 30, was convicted 13 occasions however by no means “for violating drug legislation”, mentioned Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau.

The newest conviction dates again to May 7, by the Evreux court docket “for a burglary” which earned him 18 months in jail. However, he was in pre-trial detention for different circumstances, together with an indictment by the JIRS (Interregional Jurisdiction specializing within the struggle in opposition to organized crime) of Marseille in a case of kidnapping and assassination by an organized gang.

Among the factors of debate between jail unions and the ministry is the likelihood for brokers finishing up transfers to have very speedy entry to “inmate files”. Currently, “colleagues do not necessarily know who they are transporting,” famous the secretary normal of FO Justice.

With AFP