The public prosecutor’s office has also added seven other charges

Ten days after the attack on the prison van in Incarville, the Paris public prosecutor’s office announced the opening of a judicial investigation in a press release published on Friday 24 May. ‘The investigations will now be overseen by three examining magistrates’, said the public prosecutor. The investigation, under the direction of the National Jurisdiction for Combating Organised Crime (Junalco) and conducted by the judicial police, is focusing on charges such as ‘murder in an organised gang’, ‘attempted murder in an organised gang’ and ‘escape in an organised gang’.

The ambush, which took place on 14 May, led to the deaths of two prison officers and enabled the escape of Mohamed Amra, a multi-recidivist prisoner involved in drug trafficking. Mohamed Amra and his accomplices are still at large. Three other officers were also seriously injured in the attack.

The hunt for the fugitives is expanding internationally thanks to a ‘red notice’ issued by Interpol at the request of the French authorities. ‘The investigators have some serious leads (…). Nothing has been ruled out, everything is being examined and observed”, Paris public prosecutor Laure Beccuau said on Tuesday on BFMTV, expressing confidence in the capture of the fugitives.