It's not just in the movies that inmates try to escape by digging a hole.
This is what apparently happened this Sunday morning at Fresnes prison (Val-de-Marne), Le Parisien learned from police sources.
In this way, an inmate managed to get out of her cell before being intercepted a little later.
The young woman was caught up on the rampart walk of the penitentiary.
Supervisors alerted by the motion detector
It is not yet 7 a.m. on Sunday when the prison's motion detector signals the presence of an intruder in the prison compound.
Guards arrest an inmate believed to be behind bars on the second floor of the establishment.
She allegedly made a hole in her cell, placed sheets at her window and went down to the rampart walk where she was arrested.
"The exact conditions in which she managed to get out are still a bit unclear," agrees a source close to the investigation.
According to our information, this prisoner was imprisoned for acts linked to terrorism and was therefore the subject of special monitoring.
"She was due out soon," slips a police source.
The national anti-terrorism prosecution has, moreover, recovered the case.
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