Escape with the French Pablo Escobar, helicopter and Kalashnikovs, … two escape plans of Rédoine Faïd revealed during his police custody

Placed in police custody on Tuesday, January 7 for having once again imagined escape plans, Rédoine Faïd, aged 52, explained his plans. While he disputes the facts, a notebook, in which details of his escape plans are written, had been seized by investigators.

On Tuesday, January 7, the man nicknamed the “escape king”, Rédoine Faïd, was placed in police custody. Investigators accuse him of plans to escape from Fleury-Mérogis prison where he was being held in 2023 according to le Parisien. Investigators discovered a notebook in which Faïd, known for his escapes in 2013 and 2018, had made drawings and escape plans.

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An escape with the French Pablo Escobar

The first escape preparation dates back to 2021. Rédoine Faïd had planned to escape with Kevin D., a powerful drug lord, nicknamed the French Pablo Escobar. The two men had planned an escape from Réau prison with explosives and corruption.

Surveillance has been increased between the two men and the Paris prosecutor's office has opened a judicial investigation for criminal association with a view to preparing crimes or offences. It is in 2023 that Kevin D. will reveal that he was “tested by Faïd”. On the other hand, he declares that he “would never have considered taking action”. In his defense, Rédoine Faïd stated during his hearing that Kevin D. had made it all up in order to be transferred to another remand center.

Escape by helicopter, explosion and Kalashnikovs

Another plan had been described in the notebook of about forty pages by Rédoine Faïd. A notebook that he allegedly gave to another inmate at Fleury-Mérogis prison, named Christophe, known for “extortion, intentional violence and threats”.

According to the scenario that Faïd allegedly described, four accomplices were to steal a helicopter, then parked above the prison, then two commandos were to rappel down onto the roof of the prison while another was to shoot into the void with his weapon to create a distraction.

Christophe was then to blow up the window of the search room and then the door of Faïd's cell, where the latter allegedly took care to slip a newspaper so that it would be recognizable. The two men then allegedly fled by air. Here again, Christophe says that he never intended to participate in this plan and that he pretended to be receptive.

During his police custody, Rédoine Faïd states that he deliberately slipped this notebook to the prisoner in order to be denounced by the latter and to speed up his transfer to a central prison.