This Monday, March 13, at the start of the afternoon, a man escaped from the prison of Mauzac-et-Grand-Castang, in Dordogne, according to information from France Bleu Périgord.
Incarcerated in a semi-open prison, the detainee would have simply taken advantage of the lunch break to escape on foot.
The prison guards would have given the alert after noticing his absence.
According to local radio, the fugitive, named Philippe Dubois, would be 55 years old and was serving a 28-year prison sentence for kidnapping and murder.
In 2002, with the help of two accomplices (Laurent Gauvin and his father, Patrick Gauvin), he killed his owner and her son in Nice.
The two victims, aged 72 and 48 respectively, enjoyed a significant income thanks to the rental of agricultural land, which would have aroused the covetousness of the criminals.
Their bodies were not found until a year later, in the Saint-Isidore district of Nice.
The case was known as the "
disappeared of Gairaut
", from the name of their district of residence, an affluent district of Nice.
“Semi-open” prison
During his trial, Philippe Dubois' lawyer was none other than Éric Dupond-Moretti, the current Keeper of the Seals of the government of Elisabeth Borne.
Initially sentenced to life imprisonment, Philippe Dubois was sentenced to 28 years of criminal imprisonment on appeal, in 2008, before the Assize Court of Appeal of Bouches-du-Rhône.
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Mauzac-et-Grand-Castang prison in the Dordogne is a semi-open prison, an experimental concept of a more open prison, intended to accommodate men sentenced to heavy sentences (80% of prisoners are perpetrators of sexual) with a view to reintegration.
Initially detained in another prison, Philippe Dubois was then transferred to Mauzac-et-Grand-Castang prison... from where he has just taken the key to the fields.
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