https://news.sky.com/video/people-k...tack-on-prison-convoy-in-france-13135753https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...killed-in-inmate-s-escape_6671431_7.htmlAt least two French prison officers killed in inmate's escape
The officers were shot at when their van was rammed, Agence France-Presse learned from a police source. The prisoner escaped.
Le Monde with AFP
Published today at 1:32 pm (Paris), updated at 2:01 pm
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At least two French prison officers were killed and others wounded on Tuesday, May 14, in an attack on a prison van transporting an inmate who escaped, a police source told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The ramming attack took place late morning at a road toll in Incarville in the Eure region of northern France, another source close to the case added. The inmate was being transported between the towns of Rouen and Evreux in Normandy.
A police source said that the attack was carried out by a team of several individuals who arrived in two vehicles and themselves later fled. One of them was also wounded, a police source said, but it was not immediately clear how many attackers there were in total.
Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti confirmed the attack on the prison convoy and said on X he was immediately heading to a crisis cell at his ministry.
The attack occurred at the Incarville (Eure) toll plaza shortly after 11 am. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on X that "All means are being deployed to find these criminals. On my instructions, several hundred police officers and gendarmes have been mobilized."
French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on X that the attack “comes as a shock to us all (...). Every effort is being made to find the perpetrators of this crime, so that justice can be done in the name of the French people. We will be uncompromising."
Le Monde with AFP