CONVICTS STAGE JAMES BOND STYLE JAILBREAK IN QUEBEC
Two prisoners were arrested after an audacious prison escape in Quebec in which they climbed up ropes hanging from a helicopter before being flown away.
A pilot, thought to have had a gun to his head, lowered the aircraft over the Saint-Jerome prison's exercise yard allowing inmates Benjamin HudonBarbeau, 36, and Danny Provencal, 33, to be airlifted away.
But police later arrested four people 30 miles from the prison, including the two escapee inmates.
Hudon-Barbeau was arrested on Sunday, while police established a security perimeter around a building where Provencal had barricaded himself in. After negotiations the absconder eventually surrendered himself peacefully.
Reports suggested the duo may have a connection to the notorious biker gang the Hells Angels.
Earlier on Sunday, police received a call from Saint-Jerome jail, reporting the escape around 2:20 p.m.
The jail's warden told police that Hudon-Barbeau and Provencal had grabbed a rope dropped from the helicopter to make their getaway, Richard said.One witness described the attempted escape as a 'James Bond moment'.
A man, claiming to be Hudon-Barbeau, called in to Montreal radio station 98.5 FM shortly after the escape claiming he was trying to evade police and was 'ready to die,' CBC reported.
'It will end badly,' the man said. 'I'll kill myself, I'm 36-years-old, I was told that I would die in prison.'
'The way they're treating me in there, it's unreal,' the man told the radio station. 'They won't let me be. They put me back in prison for nothing.'
Authorities did not im-
A pilot, thought to have had a gun to his head, lowered the aircraft over the Saint-Jerome prison's exercise yard
mediately respond to the claims made in the radio station interview.
He also claimed to have been shot in the leg during the escape.
The daring breakout resulted in an extensive manhunt, both by land and air, with police tracking down the helicopter in Mont-Tremblant, about 53 miles (85 kilometers) away from the jail.
The helicopter's pilot, described as an 'important witness', was the only person remaining at the scene and was taken to a local hospital and treated for shock.