French condemned, who escaped after escaping a police minibus in a deadly ambush, has been arrested in Romania, French authorities said.
Two prison officials were killed and the other three injured when a vehicle carrying Mohammed Amra was attacked by men using military weapons to attack in May 2024.
Amra, known as La Mouche, or The Fly, has links to a large drug gang in Marseille, according to French police.
President Emanuel Macron welcomed his capture as a “great success” and said his thoughts were with the families of prison officials who had died.
Macron said he also wanted “to thank our European counterparts and French investigators who have been hunting Mohammed Amra for months and months.”
French Interior Minister Bruno Deptile thanked Romania for her “decisive cooperation”.
Amra escapes from a prison van after the vehicle is planted by artillery officers on a road fee around 11:00 (09:00 GMT) on May 14 near Ruen, Normandy.
Two prisoner officers were killed after the van was fired and shots were fired. The other three officers were injured.
The artillerymen fled to a car, which later police found abandoned near where the attack took place.
The Paris prosecutor's office said AMRA had been sentenced to burglary by a Euro court on May 10 and was held in prison in Val-De-Rey until his escape on May 14.
He was also accused by prosecutors in Marseille for abduction, which led to death, the statement said.
Amra is not a “close -up prisoner,” prosecutor Laura Beckuau said at the time, using a deadline for highly dangerous prisoners.
However, it is reported that his transport still required a three -level escort, which meant that there were five prison staff traveling with him.
His lawyer at the time, Hugs Vigier, said Amra had tried to escape from prison over the weekend before the ambush, seeing the bars of her cell, but said he was shocked by “irrefutable” and “insanely” violence.
“This does not match the impression that I had it,” the lawyer told BFMTV.
At that time, Macron said that “everything” was done to find the perpetrators of the attack, which marked the first deaths of French prison officials in the 1992 on -call duty.
More than 300 investigators have been appointed to track AMRA down and obstacles have been created in northwestern France, according to police.
“After a few months long, Ara was finally arrested!” Prime Minister Francois Bayro wrote on X on Saturday.