Hooded men with guns attack prison convoy and kill guard – prisoner on the run | World News

Hundreds of police were deployed after gunmen attacked a prison convoy in France – a convict nicknamed “The Fly” escaped during the raid.

Two prison officers were killed and three other people seriously injured following the reported “ramming car attack” on a highway in Incarville, in the northwestern French region of Eure.

Footage from the crime scene shows two masked men with weapons patrolling near a toll booth on the A154 motorway.

The video also shows the apparent aftermath of a collision between a prison convoy van and a black vehicle.

A prisoner escaped after several men used two vehicles to target the convoy, a police source told French news agency AFP.

According to Le Parisien, the escaped prisoner is a man named Mohamed, who was convicted of “burglary” and is nicknamed “The Fly.”

As BFM TV reports, he appeared before a judge in Rouen this morning and was charged with attempted murder.

The attack on the prison van occurred as it was being transported back to prison in Evreux, the French broadcaster adds.

The escaped prisoner fled with those who attacked the convoy on Tuesday, Le Parisien reports.

A prison source told the French newspaper that the escaped prisoner tried to saw off the bars of his cell two days ago.

He was reportedly placed in solitary confinement and his level of surveillance was increased after the escape attempt.

Gerald Darmanin, France’s interior minister, said that after today’s attack on the convoy, “several hundred police officers” were deployed to “find these criminals.”

One of the vehicles used in the attack was found burned out at a location not named by the police source who spoke to AFP.

The prison convoy was reportedly targeted at a toll booth on the A154 motorway at around 11am local time.

French President Emmanuel Macron said the attack was a “shock for all of us.”

He wrote on social media platform

“The nation stands with the families, the injured and their colleagues.

“Everything is being done to find the perpetrators of this crime so that justice can prevail in the name of the French people. We will be persistent.”

French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti wrote on X: “A prison convoy was attacked in Eure. Two of our prison officers died and three were seriously injured.”

“All my thoughts are with the victims, their families and their colleagues.”