Mohammed Amra ‘The fly’: Everything we know about ‘drug boss’ who escaped from French prison van
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Video shows an ambush on France prison van carrying Mohamed Amra At around 9am local on Tuesday, 14 May, a prison van was ambushed by a group of hooded men near a tollbooth in Val-de-Reuil in Normandy. Police sources said Amra is an international drug trafficker, a suspect in a kidnap and murder case in Marseille, and had ties to the southern city’s powerful “Blacks” gang. Le Parisien reports the identities of Mohamed Amra’s henchmen are still unknown but Amra has a vast network in the Normandy drug scene, including “young killers ready to pull the trigger for him”. Gerald Darmanin, France’s interior minister, said “several hundred police officers” were now hunting Amra and the gunmen.
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