Mohamed Amra is now placed in a prison with a very high level of security. His daily life will be tough.
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 on Tuesday. The man sentenced 13 times by French justice was brought back on a Falcon plane by the elite unit of the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN). Upon his arrival in France, he made some provocative statements in front of the journalists. “I was on vacation,” he said, smiling, to talk about his run.
Mohamed Amra is now the subject of increased monitoring. He was immediately led last night to the Paris court, presented to a judge and indicted. The multi -wrist was then placed in an isolation district in a prison establishment with a very high level of security according to BFMTV, in Condé-sur-Sarthe. He was placed in isolation last night. This prison ensures very strict control of detainees, other French criminals have been placed there in the past, such as Youssouf Fofana, Tony Meilhon or Redoine Faïd.
The prison has 249 places, the cells are all individual, the surrounding walls measure almost 10 meters. According to information from BFMTV, Mohamed Amra will now be the subject of quasi-quota excavations and will not have joint activities with the other prisoners of this prison. He will not see anyone except the prison personnel and his lawyer, who has already said that his client was going to undergo a “very constrained isolation”. His daily life will be trying: solitude, minimum contacts, controls. He will only come out of his isolation for his trial.
Amra considered a dangerous prisoner
It must be said that Mohamed Amra’s prison is one of the penitentiary establishments thought by Gérald Darmanin to group the 100 most dangerous drug traffickers in France. The Minister of Justice wants, from the summer, new ultra-secure prisons, supposed to guarantee the absence of any contact between prisoners 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.