What we know about his run, how was it stopped?

Mohamed Amra, a fugitive wanted since his murderous escape in May 2024, was captured in Romania. Although he tried to blend into the population, he was located thanks to conventional investigation work and information provided by prisoners.

The drug trafficker Mohamed Amra was arrested in Romania after nine months of run on Saturday February 22. Unlike theories claiming that the number 1 public enemy would have been removed and then executed, French police and magistrates have always believed that the one who is also called “the fly” was in a precarious position, relates The Parisian. According to them, he hid after orchestrated his escape with the help of several groups of ultra-violent criminals, a vast network made up thanks to his contacts in prison and in the middle of Norman drug trafficking.

The fugitive and his accomplices were actively sought in France by more than three hundred investigators. Hunting man has also extended beyond the borders, with the dissemination of a “red notice” by Interpol, requested by the French authorities to find the escaped prisoner.

Listening to telephone have helped locate it

Investigators recently obtained new information suggesting that the fugitive was still alive. Communications intercepted within his nearby circle mentioned his name, in an evasive and stealthy way. It was only through in -depth telephone analyzes that Mohamed Amra could be located in Bucharest.

It is not known exactly since when he lived in Romania, but it seems that “the fly” did not take into account or ignored judicial cooperation between France and this country. Thus, a secret collaboration has been set up between the OCLCO and the Romanian police, in order to implement a European arrest warrant.

In recent weeks, French investigators have intensified their research, obtaining increasingly precise elements. Inmates have even claimed to have information on the hiding place of “La Mouche”. However, it was a methodical and meticulous investigation that ultimately made it possible to interrupt his run.

Orange -dyed hair

It was finally found in Bucharest (Romania) two days ago, before being arrested this Saturday around 3:30 p.m. on the public highway near a shopping center. The photos taken by the Romanian police show the former detainee in a little discreet outfit, with hair dyed in orange, large glasses on the nose, and a brown parka from Ralph Lauren. A video of his arrest was broadcast on social networks.

“The Romanian police locate it, identified and captured within 48 hours of the first information that it was on our territory,” detailed the Romanian Minister of the Interior Catalin Predoiu. “At the end of a hunt for several months, Amra was arrested, finally!”, Rejoiced on X Prime Minister François Bayrou. President Emmanuel Macron praised “a formidable success”.

According to a theory of the judicial police, reported by the journalist Laurent Valdiguié, “the fly” went to Romania “for a cosmetic surgery”. Mohamed Amra was arrested without a weapon, when he left a vehicle, after praising an apartment in Romania for a long time.

While the case takes a crucial turn, the investigations continue to disentangle the exact circumstances of the murderous escape. Mohamed Amra, whose French justice will ask for extradition, as well as his accomplices, are exposed to the maximum penalty provided for by law. A man, allegedly involved in the commando having facilitated the murderous escape of Mohamed Amra in Eure in May 2024, was arrested in Spain, sources said to the file in France Télévisions, Sunday, February 23.