A national tribute will be paid, Wednesday May 22, to the two prison guards killed in Eure. Chaired by Emmanuel Macron, the ceremony will be organized in the former Caen remand prison.
Five days after the attack on a prison administration van at the Incarville tollbooth (Eure), where two agents were killed, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, announced that he “will pay tribute national” to prison captain Fabrice Morello, 52, and brigadier supervisor Arnaud Garcia, 34, on Wednesday May 22, at 12 p.m., reports BFMTV. The ceremony will take place in the former Caen remand center in the presence of the Head of State.
Around 11 a.m. on Tuesday, at the Incarville tollbooth in Eure, surveillance cameras and motorists passing by witnessed a scene of rare violence. A prison van was attacked. First by a black ram car, which later turned out to have been stolen, then by several heavily armed individuals dressed in black. The attackers fired numerous shots, killing two of the prison officers and seriously injuring the other three. Two of them were still between life and death on Tuesday afternoon. The aim of this macabre operation: the escape of the detainee who was transported by this convoy, a certain Mohamed Amra, nicknamed “the Fly”.
A manhunt
Unfavorably known to the police and the justice system, Mohamed Amra was incarcerated at the Évreux remand center, from where he had attempted two days earlier, on Sunday, to escape by sawing the bars of his cell. Convicted last week of “burglary theft”, the prisoner had recently been indicted in more serious cases which would undoubtedly have earned him heavier sentences if he had been found guilty. Tuesday morning, he returned from Rouen where, according to BFMTV, he had been questioned in a case of attempted homicide. He is also indicted in Marseille for intentional homicide, in a drug trafficking case. This Tuesday evening, while the Épervier plan was lifted in the early evening, the search continues. Mohamed Amra is still on the run with his accomplices. The manhunt continues.