| Rédoine Faïd |
| Born |
May 10, 1972 (age 46)[1]
Creil, France |
| Occupation |
Gangster |
| Criminal penalty |
1998 sentenced 30 years
2005 sentenced 3 years
2011 sentenced 8 years
2013 pending |
| Criminal status |
2009 released on parole
2013 in prison |
|
| Conviction(s) |
armed robbery, bank theft, attempted prison break, breaking parole |
| Escaped |
- 13 April 2013
- 01 July 2018
|
| Escape end |
|
Rédoine Faïd ([ʁe.dwan fa.id]; born 10 May 1972) is a French gangster and serial jailbreaker, considered France's most wanted criminal in 2013.[2]
Biography[edit]
Faïd is the son of Algerian immigrants.[3][4]
After committing his first bank robbery in 1990, Faïd fled to Israel disguised as an Orthodox Jew to avoid being identified, and while there learnedHebrew.[5][6] In the mid 1990s, Faïd and Jean-Claude Bisel led a criminal gang that was responsible for armed robbery, jewel theft, and extortion in the Paris area. In 1997, seven of eight accused were tried for said charges (the eighth having fled to Algeria).[7] He was sentenced to 30 years, but was released on parole after ten years in jail.[5][8]
In 2009 he wrote a book, Braqueur: Des cités au grand banditisme,[9] about growing up in a life of crime in Paris' banlieues,[10] and claimed to have given up a life of crime.[11] However, he was the suspected mastermind of an armed robbery that claimed the life of a policewoman in 2010, and subsequently was caught after he broke parole conditions in 2011, which returned him to prison for eight years.[8][12]
Prison escapes[edit]
On the morning of 13 April 2013, he broke out of the Sequedin prison, using explosives to blast through five prison doors, holding four prison wardens hostage during the escape and employing the use of a getaway car.[2] He then burned the car in Lille and left in another vehicle. The same day, a Europe-wide warrant was issued.[13] Faïd was arrested again on 29 May 2013, in a B&B Hotels in Pontault-Combault, Seine-et-Marne, France.[14]
At around 11:30 am on 1 July 2018, Faïd was broken out of a prison in Réau with the help of three armed accomplices and a helicopter.[15] The helicopter had been hijacked from a nearby airfield and was piloted by a flying instructor who was forced to participate in the act.[16] The helicopter was later found not far from the Charles de Gaulle airport and it is believed that he escaped by car along with the three men.[17][18] Other sources have reported that the flight instructor had been released uninjured.[16]
Media influence[edit]
Faïd has been influenced by American crime films such as Scarface, Reservoir Dogs andHeat.[10][9] He has also been compared to French bank robber and serial prison escapeeJacques Mesrine (1936–1979), and has described Mesrine as one of his heroes.[19][20][21]
See also[edit]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9doine_Fa%C3%AFd
