French inmate escapes prison for the 2nd time, this time on a helicopter

The helicopter used to break Redoine Faid free from prison.
(Image credit: Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP/Getty Images)

It sounds like the plot of a movie, but this very dramatic escape actually took place Sunday in a prison outside of Paris.

A helicopter landed in the courtyard of the Reau Prison, and within minutes took off with an extra passenger: Redoine Faid, 46, an inmate serving 25 years for planning a 2010 botched armed robbery that ended with a policewoman being killed.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.