Val-d’Oise: escape of a dangerous inmate from Osny prison

An inmate of the prison ofOsny (Val d’Oise), escaped Tuesday, December 21. In the evening, he was discovered in his cell, mutilating himself. The administration decided to transfer him to Pontoise hospital, escorted by three unarmed prison officers. AT at the entrance to the emergency room, an accomplice was waiting for the convoy, armed with a rifle. She suddenly appeared and fired twice, injuring one of the officers.

The detainee and his accomplice fled. “I think that [si] the person was aware that the detainee was going to come to the hospital, it is because there was indeed a premeditation, and everything was prepared “, explains Jérôme Nobecourt, regional union representative FO-Penitentiary. Louis F., 28, had been in pre-trial detention for three months at the prison ofOsny. He is suspected of an assassination committed in 2021, and of rape with forcible confinement in 2019. This is the eighth escape of an inmate in 2021 during a transfer to the hospital.