French cop stand guard at the toll station of Incarville, near Rouen, in the North of France, where shooters assailed a jail van on Tuesday, killing 2 jail guards and assisting a detainee to escape. Photo by Chirstophe Petit Tesson/EPA-EFE
May 14 (UPI) — Four shooters assaulted a jail convoy in northern France on Tuesday, killing 2 guards and hurting 3 others in procedure of springing an prisoner nicknamed “The Fly.”
The shooters assailed the jail van that was part of a convoy bring foundedguilty robber and declared narcotics kingpin Mohamed Amra, 30, from a courthouse hearing to a protected prison in Evreux, France.
The 4 aggressors utilized cars to follow and ram the van bring Amra at a highway toll quickly after 11 a.m. regional time on the A154 freeway in Val-de-Reuil to Normandy and about 85 miles northwest of Paris.
The assaulters utilized a black Peugeot 5008 to ram the cops van bring Amra, and 4 utilized automated weapons to shoot at the van for about 2 minutes.
The shooters had “heavy weapons” and ranaway the scene with Amra in a white Audi, which authorities lateron discovered deserted and burned by fire about a lots miles from the attack website.
Two jail guards passedaway in the attack and were the veryfirst French jail guards to be eliminated in the line of task in more than 3 years.
“The attack this earlymorning, which took the lives of jail guards, is a shock to us all,” French Pres