The French convict who went on a run after fled a police van in a deadly ambush was arrested in Romania, French authorities said.
Two prison officers were killed and three people were injured when Mohamed Amra was attacked by men who used a military class weapon in May 2024.
Amra, known as La Mouche, or The Fly, has to do with the main drug for drugs in Marseille, French police reports.
President Emmanuel Macron welcomed his arrest as a “incredible success” and said that his thoughts were with the families of prison officers who died.
Macron said he also wanted to “thank our European colleagues and French investigators who hunted Mohamed Amra for months and months.”
The French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau thanked Romania for “key cooperation”.
Amra escaped from a prison van after being ambushed by the toll at about 11:00 (09:00 GMT) on May 14 near Rouen, Normandy.
Two prisoner officers were killed after the van was found and shot shot. Three other police officers were injured.
The founders fled the car that the police later found abandoned near where the attack took place.
The Paris Prosecutor’s Office announced that Amra was convicted of a burglary in Evreux on May 10th and was held in a Val-De-Reuilo prison until the escape of May 14.
Prosecutors also accused him in Marseille of leaving the death to death, it was stated.
Amra was not “closely observed prisoners,” said prosecutor Laura Beccuau, using a mandate for very dangerous prisoners.
However, his transportation still demanded a “three -level accompaniment”, which meant that five prison officers were traveling with him.
His lawyer at the time, Hugues Vigier, said Amra tried to escape from prison on weekends before ambushed by writing his cells, but said he shocked him “unforgivable” and “crazy” violence.
“That doesn’t answer the impression I had about him,” said Bfmtv lawyer.
At the time, Macron said that “everything” worked to find the perpetrators of the attack, which marked the first death of French prison officers on office since 1992.
More than 300 investigators were awarded to monitor AMRA, and road blockages were set up across the northwestern France, police reported.
“After it took several months, Amra was arrested, finally!” Prime Minister Francois Bayrou wrote on Saturday at X.
