| Rédoine Faïd, who escaped prison in 2018 aboard a hijacked helicopter in a jailbreak that astonished France, went on trial in Paris. Eleven accomplices, including members of his family, are on trial alongside Faïd, charged with helping him in the escape for 3 months. The prison escape was Faïd’s second in five years. In April 2013, he used explosives to blow open gates and took four hostages to escape from Sequedin Prison in northern France. Faïd wrote that he discovered his "calling" at the age of 12, having, he claimed, already stolen candy from a supermarket at the age of six. |  |
 | In 2010, he co-authored a book about his adventures entitled “Braqueur: Des cites au grand banditisme” (Armed Robber: From housing estates to organized crime) Access to the courtroom was under special protection and mobile phone signals scrambled. Rédoine Faïd was spotted by cops near Paris. He fled the scene and abandoned a car with plastic explosives and fake license plates in a car park. On 1 July Faïd, 46, broke out of a prison with the help of armed accomplices who hijacked a helicopter. The Jailbird King, as he is dubbed by French media, was serving a 25-year sentence for a failed 2010 robbery during which a police officer was killed. Some 2,900 police officers joining a national manhunt to track him down. |  |
 | France's Justice Minister called it "a spectacular escape. It was an extremely well-prepared commando unit that may have used drones to survey the area beforehand." |  |
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