The Daily Telegraph

Prison fugitive avoids capture at checkpoint

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A French gangster on the run for weeks after a helicopter jailbreak narrowly avoided capture by police after abandoning a car that contained explosives, officials said yesterday.

Officers identified Redoine Faid, 46, as one of two people who sped away when police carried out a security check on their car north of Paris on Tuesday.

It was the first sighting of Faid since he broke out of prison on July 1, when he was whisked away by accomplice­s in a hijacked helicopter.

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