The infamous French fugitive who committed a fatal escape that killed two security guards last year was handed over from Romania to France just days after arrests in Bucharest ended a nine-month international manhunt. Ta.
Mohamed Amra, known as “Fly”, was arrested near a shopping centre in Bucharest on Saturday after being identified by Romanian police. The Bucharest Court of Appeals approved the extradition request on Sunday.
Officials from the Romanian Home Office have spoken on condition of anonymity as legal cases are still ongoing. He is caught between handcuffs and armed police officers.
Upon arriving in France, he was taken to a major Parisian courthouse, the Paris prosecutor's office said. He is ordered to carry out the sentence he escaped last year for robbery and faces charges in other cases, including murder, attempted murder and fleeing detention.
The AMRA's famous search began last May, when armed assailants ambushed a convoy in a Normandy prison, killing two guards and seriously injured three other people in the process of helping them escape. .
Amra escaped after being pronounced in the robbery of the Normandy town of Evelu. He was also under investigation for the inviting an organized attempted murder and death, French prosecutors said.
The International Police Agency Interpol issued a notice of his arrest, but French investigators warned counterparts in other countries after suspecting Amra had left France.
Following Amra's arrest on Saturday, French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed his capture as a “terrifying success” and praised his European colleagues for completing a long cross-border hunt.
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau says Amra is suspected of having ties to the Marseille organized crime syndicate and leading a drug trafficking network.
As of Monday night, 25 people had been detained in multiple countries where they suspected any role in his escape or aftermath, Paris prosecutors said.
