The man had managed to escape on May 3 during a cultural outing to the zoo.
This detainee from Valence prison (Drôme) was arrested on Monday around 5:30 a.m. in the Lyon region, said the Valence prosecutor's office in a press release.
Six days after his escape, the man who had notably served a 15-year prison sentence in the past for acts of rape and extortion committed under the threat of a weapon, was found near his companion's home. .
He was placed in police custody for "organized gang escape" and he will be heard on the conditions of this escape, when he had already managed to escape in 2017. "The investigations will also focus on verifying the existence or not of external complicity ”, specifies the parquet floor of Valence.
The gendarmerie services of the Grenoble research section and the Drôme group, under the direction of the Valence prosecutor's office, have been struggling since last week to find the detainee, whose "release was scheduled for May 31, 2025".
His arrest was made this Monday morning with the support of specialized intervention services, namely the GIGN branch in Dijon and the observation surveillance group (GOS) in Lyon.
In Valencia, an inmate escapes during a cultural outing to the zoo
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