An on-the-run French fugitive dubbed 'The Fly' escaped from a cosy prison cell where he enjoyed a shisha pipe and access to a mobile phone and food on demand.
Real name Mohamed Amra became infamous when three guards transporting him to a new jail were shot dead in an ambush to set the crook free.
Amra is mainly known to French courts for drug trafficking, but "the head of a narcotics network" is also connected to an attempted homicide case, reports Le Parisien.
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At the time of the attack, the 30-year-old detainee who was incarcerated at the Évreux remand center in the town of the same name in Normandy, was being extracted to go to the Rouen judicial court on a "secret route".
And it has now been revealed that he lived a rather cushty lifestyle in prison, where he enjoyed a cell phone, a hookah and was even able to have food and packages delivered to him.
A wiretap revealed he was in constant contact with his network, which provided him with everything he needed from spare phones ri prepaid bank cards or even cannabis.
He was wiretapped between 2022 and 2023 and recordings listened to by French media revealed his nasty side, too.
Amra reportedly tried to buy war weapons from his cell, or assault rifles “firing in burst mode” as he put it , in November 2022. He negotiated the price 6,000 euros (£5,000) each.
Parisien also revealed a threat he made to someone via a phone call. He reportedly said: “On the Quran of Mecca, Wallah, you will respect me. You are crazy, but I will show you that I am crazier than you! (…) Do you think I’m Coluche (a French comedian)? You wanted to see my bitchiness (sic)? I will show you! You're going to pay me!"
It comes after he reportedly tried to saw the bars of his cell days before the deadly ambush. Amra was placed in a disciplinary unit and his surveillance level had been raised to a high level.
Reports stated that he was listed as a “particularly notable detainee” because of his flight risk.
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