Mohamed Arma, the multi -rindivist drug trafficker who had escaped in Eure last May, was arrested in Romania after nine months of run, this February 22, 2025. He had planned to disappear while leaving Europe.
Mohamed Amra’s run ended, it will have lasted nine months. The drug trafficker from Rouen was arrested in Romania on February 22, 2025. Before that, the latest traces of the multi -wrist prisoner went back to his ultraviolent escape occurred on May 14, 2024 at the Incarville toll in Eure. The man was then transported in a penitentiary convoy between the Rouen court and the Evreux cessation center where he had been held since January 7, 2022. During the escape, two penitentiary agents were killed and Three others were injured.
Mohamed Amra was arrested in Bucharest as he went to a barber located in a shopping center in the 1st arrondissement of the Romanian capital, north of the city. The man who dyed his hair in a very lively red, cut his beard and wore large round glasses during his arrest, obviously intended to continue his physical transformation. After his escape, the red notice emitted by Interpol described the drug trafficker as a man measuring 1.80 m with “dark brown” eyes, with “brown” and “wavy” hair and wearing a beard.
With this change of look, Mohamed Amra was preparing the next stage of his run. The Romanian interior minister, Catalin Predoiu, said Sunday evening with France 2 That the fugitive “wanted to do (surgery) aesthetic operations” in Romania before “leaving the country for Colombia”. The drug trafficker hoped to be able to join the country of South America, a high place in drug trafficking worldwide, and lead a new life under radars thanks to its new appearance.
Mohamed Amra present in Romania for several weeks
If the date on which the Norman fugitive of Algerian origin had planned to fly to Colombia was not specified, the Romanian authorities did not communicate on the period from which the drug trafficker was on their territory either. According to information from ParisianRomanian police carried out searches in an apartment that would have served as a hideout in Mohamed Amra “since February 8”. The place in question is not located in Bucharest, but in very close suburbs in the department of Ilfov which surrounds the capital, only a few pies of the hairdresser houses where the man was arrested.
The drug trafficker could be located in Romania thanks to the telephone listening of the communications intercepted within the circle near Mohamed Amra. Cooperation between French police and European services, including Romanian authorities, have made it possible to get their hands on the fugitive. But the latter’s journey during his nine months of run remains unclear.
Presented to a judge on Sunday, February 23, Mohamed Amra agreed to be given to France. The man “does not recognize the acts committed, but wishes to respect the decision of the French authorities who want to judge him,” said the lawyer who represented him in Romania Maria Marcu. The extradition of the fugitive to France must be done within 30 days, before the end of March. The French and Romanian authorities must coordinate to determine the conditions of the transfer and the security measures in order to avoid a new escape.