Item 1 of 2 Interpol logo and graphics with an undated mugshot of 30-year-old French inmate Mohamed Amra, also known as "The Fly", who was freed by accomplices in a May 14, 2024 deadly French prison van attack that left two guards dead and three injured.
Beccuau said most of his convictions had been handed down by courts in northern France, but he had also served time in jails in Paris and Marseille. She said many of his convictions were for burglary.* Police sources told Reuters Amra was a mid-level player in France's drug trade, with links to Marseille's powerful "Blacks" gang.
The Interpol Red Notice said he was suspected of the "acquisition, detention, transportation, offering or disposal of narcotics". Amra was convicted of burglary by a court in Evreux on May 10 and was being held at the Val de Reuil prison. A few days before his escape, he had tried to saw his way out of his cell, officials said.morning, Amra was on his way to a meeting with an investigating judge when his two-vehicle convoy approached a toll booth in Incarville in the Eure region of northern France.
At 10:57 a.m., a Peugeot car that had been stolen a few days earlier rammed into the front of one of the prison vans, Beccuau said. Armed men got out of the Peugeot and were joined by another crew who got out of an Audi, before they opened fire on the two vans. Two officers were killed and three critically wounded. The assailants then sped off with Amra.
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