The Incarville toll, in Normandy, has become a death trap this Tuesday for prison officers who were transporting a dangerous prisoner in a van, and the scene of a show of force by criminal groups in France.
An unknown number of criminals, aboard two cars, have ambushed the van in order to free Mohamed Amra, a 30-year-old prisoner with several convictions behind him and a suspect, according to the newspaper Le Parisianof being related to an attempted murder linked to drug trafficking last year in Marbella.
In this Tuesday’s action, the assailants killed two agents, left three others injured and fled with Amra. Some 200 gendarmes, accompanied by elite forces, are searching for the fugitives, and the Government has activated the call Gavilan Planintended to expedite the mobilization of agents and the closure of a perimeter in the region.
“Everything will be put in place to find the perpetrators of this crime so that justice is done in the name of the French people,” declared President Emmanuel Macron. His prime minister, Gabriel Attal, promised: “We will look for them, we will find them and they will pay.”
The event occurs at a socially and politically sensitive time, a few weeks before the European elections. And in a context in which discourses about alleged widespread violence in France are thriving and the country faces a real drug trafficking problem.
The events occurred around 11:00 in the morning at a toll on the A154, which links a national road with the motorway between Paris and the Normandy coast. The prison van was transporting the prisoner Amra from the Évreux municipal court, where he had just been tried and sentenced, to the prison in his hometown of Rouen, according to the Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti.
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In the released recordings, you can see how one of the assailants’ cars, heading in the opposite direction, blocks the van right at the exit of the toll booth. Men dressed in black, hooded and carrying assault weapons, get out. Two vehicles participated in the assault — a BMW 5 Series and a white Audi A5, according to The Figaro— and they shot at the van, before taking the prisoner and fleeing. A few hours later, both cars were found burned in two different places in the Eure department.
The attack of this morning, which is the life of the agents of the administrative administration, is a shock for all of us.
The Nation lies among the côtés of families, des blessés and de leurs collegues.
Tout est mis en œuvre pour retrouver les auteurs de ce crime…
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) May 14, 2024
One of the fatalities was 52 years old and the father of two children, according to Le Parisian. The other was 35 and his wife was expecting a child. Two other agents who were traveling in the van are in critical condition. Minister Dupont-Moretti explained that the last deaths in the prison administration dated back to 1992.
Some details about the personality of the escaped prisoner have begun to spread. He doesn’t seem like a big boss, but someone with a considerable criminal history. He is 30 years old and is known as La Mosca, according to The Figaro, which specifies that the authorities did not consider him ideologically radicalized, that is, an Islamist. He had just been sentenced to 18 months in prison for robberies and robberies in 2019. He has spent time in prisons in Paris and Marseille, in addition to Rouen. He was facing, among other cases, a charge of “attempted murder.” Two days ago, he had attempted to saw the bars of his cell and was consequently subject to an increased level of surveillance.
The most striking case in which the French press implicates Mohamed Amra has a Spanish derivative. He tells it in detail Le Parisian. It happened on July 18, 2023 around 6:00 p.m., when a man wearing an Olympique Lyon t-shirt, a cap and a scarf over his face appeared on the streets of Marbella with a gun and fired several times without apparently causing any victims. . The man fled. Images of the event circulated on social networks.
Explain Le Parisian that the objective of the operation was to kill a Frenchman from Évreux, in Normandy, supposedly linked to drug trafficking. According to French investigators, the murder project was commissioned by someone nicknamed The Fly, who was then in La Santé prison in Paris. The Parisian newspaper specifies that Mohamed Amra “has not yet been charged in this case.”
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