Arrested in Romania, Mohamed Amra is extradited to France this Tuesday, February 25. The drug trafficker who had escaped during a penitentiary convoy in Eure in May 2024 should be placed in a prison with a very high level of security.
If it took nine months to find him after his escape, it was enough three days after his arrest to renew Mohamed Amra in France. The drug trafficker who had escaped with the help of a commando during a penitentiary convoy between the Rouen court and the Evreux remand center in May 2024, was arrested in Bucharest, the capital of Romania , Saturday February 22, 2025.
After being escorted at Bucharest airport by the Romanian authorities, Mohamed Amra was extradited to France this Tuesday, February 25 around 4 p.m. His return is scheduled for the evening. The man condemned 13 times by French justice is brought back on board a Falcon plane by the elite unit of the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN), according to The Parisian who cites a source close to the file.
During his presentation to a judge in Romania on Sunday, February 23, the 30 -year -old fugitive agreed to be given to the French authorities according to the lawyer who represented him, Maria Marcu. He had then changed his mind and decided to call on a information from Paris Match. The appeal has not yet been studied, but it should be deemed inadmissible with regard to Romanian law which considers the decision to return the man from Rouen to his country as “final”, Romanian judicial sources explained to AFP.
Amra on the list of 100 Darmanin drug traffickers?
Mohamed Amra will be the subject of increased monitoring upon his return to French territory. He will be immediately led to the Paris court to be presented to a judge for an indictment. He will then go to a liberty and detention judge which will inform him of the place where he will be imprisoned on suggestion from the Ministry of A justice. The Keeper of the Seals, Gérald Darmanin, has already asked that the multi -riencidist be placed in an isolation district within a penitentiary establishment with a very high level of security according to Bfmtv.
The 30-year-old man could be part of the list of 100 drug traffickers that the Minister of Justice plans to place in one of his new ultra-secure prisons and supposed to guarantee the absence of any contact between detainees and the outside world. Gérald Darmanin’s objective with these new prisons is to prevent trafficking in drug traffickers since their detention, and at the same time preventing the development of an escape plan with external aid. Due to his status as a drug trafficker and his escape occurred on May 14, 2024 at the Incarville toll, during which two penitentiary agents were killed and three other injured, Mohamed Amra corresponds to the profile of the individuals that the Minister wishes to place in these highly secure prisons.
Gérald Darmanin clarified the measures that could be put in place in these prisons and with regard to the 100 main drug traffickers held in France, before a possible widening of the system to other prisoners, on Thursday, February 20. The Minister was inspired by Italian antimafia devices and mentioned some measures to make these establishments completely hermetic: systematic appeal to videoconference to limit extractions, compulsory excavations after each visiting room which would take place behind hygiaphones, telephone exchanges limited or a suppression of family life units.