PARIS --A notorious French criminal serving 25 years for murder made an audacious escape from prison Sunday after a helicopter carrying several heavily armed commandos landed in a courtyard, freed him ...

French police have launched a nationwide manhunt to track down a career criminal who escaped from a jail south of Paris on Sunday, AFP has reported. Redoine Faid—jailed for a failed robbery in which a ...

Infamous armed robber Redoine Faid was arrested three months after he escaped from a French prison where he was being held for his role in the death of a police office during a botched robbery. (AP) ...

A notorious French criminal and now serial escapee is once again on the run, having busted out of a French prison on Sunday in a helicopter. Redoine Faid was in the middle of a visit with his brother ...

PONTOISE, France --A French gangster on the run for weeks after a dramatic helicopter jailbreak has narrowly avoided capture by a police patrol and had to abandon a car containing explosives, ...

Redoine Faid was serving a 25-year sentence at a prison south of Paris for an armed robbery that went wrong and led to the death of a policewoman in 2010. (AP) A French gangster is on the run after ...

A gangster who made a Hollywood-style helicopter prison break was arrested in northern France early Wednesday after three months on the run, at times hiding under a burqa to get around, officials and ...

A notorious French gangster who broke out of prison in a hijacked helicopter may be disguising himself as an Orthodox Jew. French police chiefs also believe Redoine Faid - one of the country's most ...

France's most-wanted fugitive Rédoine Faïd was tracked down by police through phone-taps and was discovered using a burqa as a disguise, prosecutors say. Faïd, 46, was detained on Wednesday in the ...

A convicted burglar accused of escaping from prison in astonishing fashion aboard a hijacked helicopter is facing life in prison as his trial over the 2018 breakout begins. Rédoine Faïd was serving ...

The gang that helped free one of France’s most notorious criminals from prison used drones for reconnaissance as part of preparation for the jail break, the country’s justice minister said Monday.

If Faïd, who refused to leave his prison cell, does not relent, he could be removed by force, or the trial could go on in his absence, French daily Le Figaro reported, saying that the 47-year-old ...