Five prisoners have escaped from a prison near Lisbon using a ladder to get over the wall

Five inmatesthat They were serving sentences of 7 to 25 years in prisonhave fled from the Portuguese prison from Vale de Judeus, located about 70 kilometers north of Lisbon, Portuguese prison sources reported on Saturday.

The General Directorate of Reintegration and Penitentiary Services (DGRSP) has stated in a statement that They reported her missing at 11 local time today and that, after analysing the security cameras, they confirmed that they had escaped from the centre, located in Alcoentre (Lisbon district).

“It is possible to report that the leak took place with outside help through the launch of a ladder which allowed the inmates to scale the wall and access the outside,” the entity has specified, which announced that the necessary criminal police bodies have been notified for their capture and have opened a process to investigate the case.

The Directorate has stated that the escapees are Fernando Ribeiro Ferreira (61 years old), Rodolfo Jose Lohrmann (59), Mark Cameron Roscaleer (39), Fábio Fernandes Santos Loureiro (40) and Shergili Farjiani (33).

They are serving sentences for crimes such as drug traffickingcriminal association, money laundering, robbery, kidnapping, extortion and abduction, among others.

According to local media, they are Two inmates of Portuguese nationalitya Argentineana Georgian and a British.

The Vale de Judeus prison houses mostly inmates serving long-term sentences, with a “very significant number” of foreign prisoners, according to the DGRSP.