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| Two Convicts Escape From French Prison |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/16/2001 |
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A helicopter hijacked at gunpoint landed in a French prison yard, plucked up two convicts and flew them away before officers could stop the dramatic escape Friday, officials said. Police said the inmates escaped from the Aix-Luynes prison in the southeastern Bouches-du-Rhone region after a man with a pistol hijacked a helicopter based at an airfield in nearby Aix-les-Milles. The helicopter landed in a courtyard at the prison and took off with the two convicts aboard, said a prison official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Prison officials identified the escapees as Pascal Paillet, 38, and Frederic Impocco, 31. Both were 'highly monitored convicts' at the prison, they said. The pilot and co-pilot were set free after landing the helicopter in the town of Bouc-bel-Air, about 10 miles north of Marseille, officials said. The convicts and their accomplice fled in a car, they said. In May, three convicts escaped in a helicopter from a prison in nearby Toulon, one of at least 10 successful escapes by helicopter in the past decade in France. |
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