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We Got This Covered
National
Jordan Collins

In 2018, France’s most notorious gangster concocted a genius plan to escape prison, all he’d need was was guns, smoke bombs, and a helicopter

In 2018, Rédoine Faïd, was serving time in prison for his involvement in a robbery which resulted in the death of a police woman. The notorious criminal had slipped through the authorities fingers many times in the past but this time they were certain they had him. Little did they know that Faïd had been plotting yet another escape and this one would be his boldest one yet.

Rédoine Faïd had always found he got an adrenaline rush whenever he got away with crimes. From a young age he started stealing from local shops and developed into a full on career criminal. By the mid-1990s he was leading a criminal gang responsible for countless armed robberies in the Paris area.

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