France prisoner escape: huge manhunt launched as gunmen kill two guards and free inmate from van live
Briefly

The escaped prisoner has been named by French media as Mohamed Amra, 30, known as La Mouche (The Fly). Public prosecutor Laure Beccuau said Amra was under high surveillance and had recently been sentenced for burglary, and that he was under investigation for a kidnapping and homicide case in Marseille, the AP reported.
Gerald Darmanin, the French interior minister, expressed condolences to the families of the prison guards killed in the ambush. All means are being used to find these criminals. On my instructions, several hundred police officers and gendarmes were mobilised.
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