Helicopters and 200 agents mobilized in France to search for the murderers of two police officers in an assault

“It will be done everything possible to find the perpetrators of this despicable crime“. This is how forceful the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, has been after the murder of two prison officers in an attack in Normandy on two vans police in which a detainee was released that was being transferred.

The French authorities have launched the so-called plan Epervier (Hawk in Spanish) o Immediate Intervention Plan, a large police operation to try to find those responsible of the attack. This type of deployment of French security forces is activated in response to a kidnapping or the search and capture of a person.

“They’re deploying all means to find these criminals. Following my instructions, several hundred police and gendarmes have been mobilized,” Darmanin said on his profile on the social network X.

Until 200 gendarmesthe special intervention group of the Gendarmerie and several helicopters participate in the device launched by the Ministry of the Interior to find the escaped criminal and his accomplices.

The president of France, Emmanuel Macronhas guaranteed that “Everything possible is being done” to find the perpetrators of this crime and that “justice be done in the name of the French people.”

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“They are people for whom life is worthless. They will be arrested, they will be tried and they will be punished according to the crime they have committed,” the Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Morettiwho recalled that the last deaths in the French prison system date back “to 1992.”

The brutal assault

Two prison guards were shot dead and three were injured this Tuesday morning in the Eure region of northern France, after a group of Four hooded men aboard two vehicles and heavily armed assaulted the convoy of two vans that transported to a prisoner.

The images spread on social networks show a assault worthy of a movie. One of the vehicles blocked the convoy and the four assailants began shooting with long weapons, whose firepower was much superior to the guns carried by the agents.

Two of them died in the shooting and three were injured, two extremely seriously, while the inmate and the assailants fled in a vehicle which appeared burned somewhat later in a nearby area, local media reported.

According to French police, the ambush, which took place at a toll in the Norman area of ​​Incarville, was perfectly orchestrated to free the prisoner.

He fugitive has been identified as Mohamed Amra30 years old, a prisoner who has several convictions behind him and is suspected of being related to an attempted murder linked to drug trafficking in the summer of 2023 in Marbella, according to the newspaper Le Parisian. Likewise, it is related to Amra – known by the nickname The fly– with the powerful criminal gang “Los Negros”, according to Reuters.

Two days ago, The detainee had already tried to break the bars of his cell, as explained by a prison source to Le Parisien. For this reason, the prisoner had been placed in isolation and was being subjected to a high level of surveillance.

The assault has shocked the country, where assaults by organized gangs to armored cash transport vans were very common in the 70s and 80sbut these types of attacks had already been forgotten.

The investigation The case has been taken over by the National Jurisdiction for the Fight against Organized Crime, the Paris Prosecutor’s Office announced in a statement.