France hunts top criminal after daring jailbreak

Redoine Faid, once France’s ‘Most Wanted Man’, was picked up by accomplices in a hijacked helicopter on Sunday.

In France, an unprecedented manhunt is continuing after a notorious gangster made a daring jailbreak in a hijacked helicopter in broad daylight.

It is his second escape in the past five years.

Redoine Faid was snatched from a prison visiting room on Sunday after his accomplices landed in a prison yard and used power tools to cut through the security doors.

 

Al Jazeera’s Paul Brennan reports.