Fugitive Who Used Helicopter To Escape Caught In France
The repeat offender has fascinated the country, and is known there as the "jailbreak king." Rédoine Faïd was serving a 25-year-sentence for a botched armed robbery in 2010 that killed a policewoman.
by Merrit Kennedy
Oct 03, 2018
2 minutes
One of France's most notorious criminals, Rédoine Faïd, has been captured three months after he made an astonishing escape by helicopter from a French prison.
The repeat offender has fascinated the country, as NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports, and is known there as the "jailbreak king." He's spoken.
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