{"id":8280,"date":"2025-02-23T18:59:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T18:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/notorious-fugitive-known-as-the-fly-arrested-after-deadly-prison-escape-in-france-and-9-month-manhunt\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T18:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T18:59:19","slug":"notorious-fugitive-known-as-the-fly-arrested-after-deadly-prison-escape-in-france-and-9-month-manhunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/notorious-fugitive-known-as-the-fly-arrested-after-deadly-prison-escape-in-france-and-9-month-manhunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Notorious fugitive known as &#8220;The Fly&#8221; arrested after deadly prison escape in France and 9-month manhunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Mohamed Amra, a \u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/france-prison-break-manhunt-mohamed-amra-officers-killed\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">fugitive French prisoner<\/a><\/span> who prompted an international hunt after staging a deadly escape nine months ago, was arrested Saturday in Romania, the French government said. Ten of his alleged accomplices have also been arrested, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron called the capture a &#8221;formidable success&#8221; and praised European colleagues who had pursued him. French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau thanked \u2033all the forces who permitted the arrest of Mohamed Amra in Romania today,\u2033 in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>Romanian police said that Amra was arrested in an operation in the capital, Bucharest.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"APTOPIX Romania France Arrest Amra \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/23\/d103f371-4e8f-4bc7-84e5-653630427f2e\/thumbnail\/620x413g6\/c59c72430d56e277c07cc227865bd90b\/ap25054555535971.jpg?v=db3d87ba7bf4d4ff13b65eabcf0d9bea 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/23\/d103f371-4e8f-4bc7-84e5-653630427f2e\/thumbnail\/1240x826g6\/6d59ed6e2e9137eaa72dcafb1ae93b49\/ap25054555535971.jpg?v=db3d87ba7bf4d4ff13b65eabcf0d9bea 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Police officers escort Mohamed Amra, nicknamed &#8221;The Fly&#8221;, after a court hearing at the Court of Appeals in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, following his arrest the day before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Vadim Ghirda \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/france-prison-escape-rouen-officers-killed-manhunt\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Two guards were killed<\/a><\/span> when armed assailants helped Amra escape from a prison convoy in Normandy last May, prompting a high-profile search. Interpol <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interpol.int\/en\/How-we-work\/Notices\/Red-Notices\/View-Red-Notices#2024-33261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">issued a red notice<\/a>\u00a0at the request of France for the arrest of Amra.<\/p>\n<p>Amra, 30, fled after being sentenced for burglary in the Normandy town of Evreux. He was also under investigation for an attempted organized homicide and a kidnapping that resulted in death, prosecutors said. Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau has said that Amra had connections with Marseille&#8217;s organized crime syndicates and was suspected of heading a drug trafficking network.<\/p>\n<p>Amra&#8217;s first offenses occurred between the ages of 11 and 14, according to the prosecutor. Nicknamed &#8220;La Mouche&#8221; (The Fly), Amra has also been referred to by other aliases such as &#8220;Yanis,&#8221; &#8220;Momo,&#8221; and &#8220;Schtroumpf&#8221; (Smurf).<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Paris chief prosecutor said police had also arrested 10 suspected accomplices of Amra. <\/p>\n<p>Amra&#8217;s escape and violent history made him a symbol of the challenges faced by French law enforcement in combating organized crime and ensuring the security of high-risk prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>The brutality of the ambush, which was caught on CCTV, shocked France and Amra instantly became the country&#8217;s most wanted man.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities tasked more than 300 investigators with finding Amra, who has a long history of convictions for violent crimes that started when he was in his early teens.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2024 judiciary report, he started out with aggravated robberies and progressively &#8220;slid towards violence,&#8221; eventually entering the world of organized crime.<\/p>\n<p>The report found that authorities underestimated for some time just how dangerous he had become.<\/p>\n<p>Amra is suspected of pursuing his drug-related activities from his prison cell, and even of ordering hits from detention.<\/p>\n<h2>Accomplices allegedly &#8220;helped the fugitive to hide&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin on Sunday published an open letter to prison officers, promising them better working conditions.<\/p>\n<p>He also vowed the creation of &#8220;prison police&#8221; units and a &#8220;high security prison&#8221;, in response to concerns that it has become too easy for convicted criminals to continue their business despite being locked up, thanks notably to access to mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>Such a supermax prison, to be completed within months, would keep France&#8217;s &#8220;100 biggest drug traffickers&#8221; in complete isolation &#8212; using Italian anti-mafia laws as a model &#8212; so that &#8220;a case like Amra&#8217;s can never happen again,&#8221; Darmanin said.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of his escape, Amra was facing one charge for attempted murder and another for participation in a gangland killing in the southern city of Marseille, a hub for drug trafficking and gang violence.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris prosecutor said in a statement that his 10 suspected accomplices had been detained on Saturday and early Sunday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/05\/15\/eda5346b-cbd8-403a-802f-0775ebc64174\/thumbnail\/620x711\/9446860429b8f19d85f3d01b5f63df10\/2024-05-15t112218z-480763129-rc2zq7aaxptr-rtrmadp-3-france-crime.jpg?v=db3d87ba7bf4d4ff13b65eabcf0d9bea#\" alt=\"Undated mugshot of 30-year-old French inmate Amra \" height=\"711\" width=\"620\" 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and that police seized weapons during raids.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are suspected of having helped in the preparation and execution of the escape, and having helped the fugitive to hide,&#8221; the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n<p>Romanian police said Amra was arrested near a Bucharest shopping center and would be brought before a magistrate who will decide on his extradition to France.<\/p>\n<p>After being alerted by their French colleagues, it took Romanian police just 48 hours to locate, identify and capture Amra, the government in Bucharest said.<\/p>\n<p>Amra, who rejects the charges against him, had agreed to be returned to France, lawyer Maria Marcu said. &#8220;He respects the decision of the French authorities who want to put him on trial,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Beccuau said Amra, who had changed his appearance and dyed his hair, had been identified through facial recognition tools and his fingerprints.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers for the families of the two agents killed in Amra&#8217;s 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