Two others wounded in attack on vehicle transporting prisoner in Rouen area, police source says
Three French prison officers reported killed as inmate escapes vanAgence France-PresseElite French police forces are hunting gunmen who rammed into a prison van, killing at least two prison officers and allowing the inmate they were transporting to escape.
The incident took place late morning at a road toll in Incarville in the Eure region of northern France, another source close to the case added.A police source said several individuals, who arrived in two vehicles, rammed the police van and then fled. One of them was wounded, the police source said.“Everything is being done to find the perpetrators of this crime,” the president, Emmanuel Macron, wrote on X. “We will be uncompromising,” he added, describing the attack as a “shock”.
“I am frozen with horror at the veritable carnage that took place at the Incarville toll,” said Alexandre Rassaert, the head of the Eure region council. “I hope with all my heart that that the commando team of killers which carried out this bloody attack will be arrested quickly.”Traffic was stopped on the A154 motorway where the incident took place.
“All means are being used to find these criminals. On my instructions, several hundred police officers and gendarmes were mobilised,” he said.
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