Paris ( AP )- A large hunt was being conducted in France on Wednesday for an armed group that had shot three prison guards and seriously injured three people to wire an criminal they were escorting.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said “unprecedented” attempts were deployed, with thousands of soldiers mobilized in the hunt for the escaped convict, Mohamed Amra, and the intruders who ambushed the fleet transporting him on Tuesday.
France was shocked by the violence of the invasion. On Wednesday, jail employees held moments of silence outside jails in Paris and other locations to remember the soldiers who were killed.
Darmanin, speaking Wednesday on RTL television, expressed desire that Amra may be caught “in the approaching time”. He claimed 450 officers had been stationed in the area of the attack to search for the adversaries and for any information about their whereabouts without providing specifics about the amount of the chase.
” The means employed are considerable”, he said. ” We are progressing a bunch”.
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After a court hearing in Rouen, the fleet was bringing Amra up to justice on the A154 motorway.
Amra, 30, had a lengthy criminal history, with at least 13 convictions for assault and various crimes, the first when he was only 15, said Paris attorney Laure Beccuau.
One of the officers killed was a 52- season- old captain in the jail services, where he had worked for almost 30 years, and a father of two, the prosecutor said. The different official killed, aged 34, was a committed dad- to- be, she said.
