The Moulins-Yzeure prison center in Allier experienced an escape on Saturday afternoon.

Two inmates fled on their way back from a culinary competition, we learned from the Roanne in the Loire department.

The two men were returning from the final exams of this competition organized at the Paul Bocuse Institute in Ecully in the Rhône, when they lost company to their companions from the Penitentiary Integration and Probation Service (SPIP) in the town of Néronde. in the Loire.

A competition to encourage professional reintegration

Presented as "two common law delinquents, aged in their twenties and released in 2022 and 2023", they "took advantage of a stop at the toilets on the Loire motorway area, on the edge of the river. 'A89, to escape in a car stolen on the spot,' said Abdelkrim Grini, the public prosecutor of Roanne, confirming information from the regional daily

Le Progrès

. They have been wanted since Saturday 5 p.m. by various local gendarmerie units, as well as the Roanne research brigade.

The two men benefited from an exit permit from the sentencing judge of Moulins who follows them as part of the preparation for their professional reintegration, the same source specifies.

They were, along with inmates from the Riom penitentiary center in Puy-de-Dôme, and remand centers in Puy-en-Velay in Haute-Loire and Bonneville in Haute-Savoie, finalists of the inter culinary challenge. -prisons launched by the Michelin-starred chef from Marseille, Michel Portos.

This competition aims to encourage participants to continue their professional integration journey in prison, by preparing for the professional title of catering agent.

Miscellaneous

Escaped from custody, a young man arrested after four months on the run

Miscellaneous

Arrested for threats to a mother and her daughters, the man escapes from the police station

  • Miscellaneous

  • Jail

  • Run

  • evasion