Incarville, France:
The assault on a jail van in northern France that left two guards useless and three wounded started at 10:57 am (0857 GMT) and lasted simply two minutes.
A black Peugeot SUV rammed the automobile because it emerged, lights flashing and adopted by a second jail service automobile, from the motorway toll gate at Incarville, simply south of Normandy capital Rouen.
Out of the ramming automobile, “stolen a couple of days earlier than” in keeping with prime Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau, surged hooded attackers in black armed with military-style weapons.
The automobile “had halted on the verge, ready for the convoy” to go the toll, Beccuau added, in an indication of an assault ready right down to the final element.
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CCTV photos from the scene considered by AFP present the start of the assault on the jail van, though a passing truck obscures some particulars.
Extra assailants will be seen arriving from behind the convoy, with prosecutors saying they jumped out of a white Audi automobile.
The prisoner, Mohamed Amra, was being escorted that day by 5 guards — a “degree three” safety that’s the second-highest obtainable for inmate transport in France, reserved for these implicated in terror or organised crime instances.
Guards have been “in fact armed”, Beccuau stated, including that “preliminary findings from the scene lead us to assume that some could have used their service weapons”.
However the group had on them solely “a fundamental Sig Sauer (automated pistol) towards army weapons,” stated Frederic Liakhoff, a consultant for the FO union on the jail within the northern metropolis of Caen the place Amra was being transported.
‘Very, very loud’
With their “lengthy weapons” (rifles), the attackers “fired a number of instances on the 2 jail service autos, killing two brokers and wounding three others,” Beccuau stated.
It was the primary time a French jail guard had been killed within the line of obligation since 1992.
In the meantime the lifetime of one of many three males injured stays at risk.
There have been “loud gunshots, very, very loud,” stated Jerome Barbier, who was on his approach to have a tendency his beehives close to the Incarville toll station when the assault occurred.
“After that, there was a pause for one or two minutes, a giant blast, two gunshots after which it was throughout,” the native resident informed AFP.
One minute and 40 seconds into the assault, the surveillance video reveals a person — apparently a guard — being compelled in direction of the jail van at gunpoint.
Instants later, a person sporting white trainers climbs out.
He and 5 black-clad accomplices flee earlier than an explosion.
Later Tuesday, “two autos have been discovered burned out” not removed from the scene, Beccuau stated.
“The crime scene reveals the intense violence the criminals we’re attempting to find perpetrated,” she added after visiting the positioning.
“The resolve of judges and investigators will rise to the problem of this violence.”
Inside Minister Gerald Darmanin informed broadcaster RTL that “appreciable” assets had been deployed to seek out escapee Amra and the “gang who freed him in deplorable circumstances”.
“Greater than 450 police and gendarmes” have been within the area Tuesday within the Eure division the place the assault came about, he added, saying France had additionally known as in “worldwide cooperation”.
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