Hundreds of police officers in France are hunting for an armed gang who ambushed a prison van on a busy road near Rouen in Normandy , shooting dead two prison guards and freeing a prisoner known as ‘The Fly”.
The brutal attack, which took place at a road toll booth and was captured on CCTV, has shocked France. Gunmen opened fire on prison officers, killing two and critically injuring two others. France’s President Emmanuel Macron said “everything is being done to find the perpetrators.”
The prisoner, Mohamed Amra, was being taken from court to a prison when a car rammed the prison van at the toll gate. He’s accused of being a drugs gang leader and has been indicted by prosecutors in Marseille for a kidnapping that led to a death.
Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Nick Beake in Rouen.
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Are you kidding me?
Where was the Legion??
French police are a bunch of incompetent idiots!
This mf justice minister…
Saying that "insecurity is just a feeling…."
This guy was applauded by prisoners …
I don't know why it's particularly chilling or surprising.
If you have the money to pull it off, anyone would do that rather than a long prison term.
And the henchmen had a job to do, they wouldn't be good at it if not cold and efficient. The police were obstacles that had to be removed, it was nothing personal, I'm sure, and if the roles were reversed it would be same outcome.
This is simply the crossroads of combat and commerce.
French people enjoy the multicultural sociaty loke us Italian
Look at his name. I thought Islam was the religion of peace. And that drugs and alcohol are forbidden. What are you doing letting these people in, France?
I started doing drugs years ago as a teenage, got addicted to heroin. Spent my whole life fighting heroin addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder; was actually diagnosed with cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
Its like they have military tranning thanks to iran 😂😂
Muslims
What’s the update on this , did they catch these thugs
France is a joke 🤣
Import the third world, become the third world
Let all these immigrants into your country and watch it be destroyed.
Dam 🦫 France 🇫🇷 is freakin wild!!! I thought Chicago was crazy!! 😮The man saying No in French was a real one. 😮
Merci Macron 🤷♂️🤦♂️🛑🇫🇷
Welcome to france hon hon bonjour !
She is a terrorist
Stop resistance
They write that the man is a citizen of Ukraine.
Macron
Typical France
How do they get the money to afford all this equipment
In Israel, the Jews ruined my marriage. My ex-wife and I belong to the Muslim religion. People I didn’t know verbally attacked me and my ex-wife anywhere on the street. When I went into my apartment with my ex-wife, voices of people I didn’t know on the street shouted that I was cheating on my wife. It's a lie. When I was home alone, the same voices shouted that she was now cheating on me with someone. My wife and I finally separated after 17 years of marriage. Why israelis hate us, we came from Baku to Israel. Why do Jews have such hatred for non-Jews?
They had someone they didn't really know; this type of attack ain't for some run-of-the-mill block. 😮
Diversity is our strength
I’m sure glad the strict gun control in France is working out so well! MORONS!
The French must be starting to want to resurrect Napoleon.
They need a leader who can surpass Macron.
> Another violent attack
> Name is Muhammad
> Color me surprised
Why aren't those criminals following the gun laws? Don't they know you can't have guns in France?