The French jail service said that on Saturday he started an investigation when a person smuggled himself in his cellmet’s bag, as he had left the jail, sentenced him. The man was caught on Monday.
20-year-old prisoner from Lyon-Korbas Jail, near Lyon, South-East France, ran away from Broadcaster BFMTV on Friday InformedHis Salamet had completed his sentence and ran away hiding his clothes in a wash bag, as he had left jail, the outlet told.
The prosecutors said the prisoner was arrested on Monday while emerging from a basement in Corbas near Leon, prosecutors said that his fellow prisoner’s partner was not yet arrested.
The prisoner was serving several sentences, the jail service said in a statement to the AFP.
The statement said that he took advantage of the liberation of his fellow prisoner and to hide himself in his belongings and get out, “said in the statement.
Avoided prisoner A case related to organized crime was also investigated, a source close to the affair told the AFP.
The jail service said that an internal investigation was going on and Leon prosecutors had opened their investigation.
Director of Jail Administration, Sabstian Cauvel, Told BFMTV On Sunday that the “accumulation of errors” and “a range of serious malfunctions” led to it.
“This is a very rare event that we have never experienced in this administration,” he said.
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Last month, the Lyon Bar Association expressed concern about the congestion in Leon-Corbas Jail, BBC reported,
As of May 1, 2025, about 1,200 people were detained in jail, with capacity for 678 prisoners, BFMTV reported.
