Thai police have arrested a French fugitive on Phuket’s tropical island for a dead prison detach nicknamed « the fly ».
Adonis Correa, of 24 shocking getaway of the suspect Kingpin Kingpin Mohamed Amra of a prison van in northern France in May 2024.
The researchers consider Correa to be an « intimate friend » of Amra, who was arrested in Romania last month after nine months in the race as « a public enemy number an audience » in France.
Correa was arrested on Wednesday on the southern island of Phuket, a very popular beach destination for millions of tourists, said French sources and Thai police on Thursday.
« Thai immigration police have arrested a French national linked to a transnational criminal organization involved in a violent prison break that resulted in the death of prisons’ agents, » Thai police said in a statement.
The shocking and violent nature of Amra’s escape last year stunned France and made headlines around the world.
The masked gunmen armed with military quality automatic weapons attacked a prison van that transported him to a toll road place, Killing two guards and injuring three others. Interpol had it issued a red notice at the request of France for the arrest of Amra.
Amra, who is suspected of following her drug -related activities and even ordering murders of her prison cell, went to the race and finally followed Bucarest and sent to France.
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The prosecutors at that time said Amra, who had changed his appearance And his hair was dyed, he had been identified by facial recognition tools and his fingerprints.
At least 2 dozen suspects detained
Correa is the last of two dozens of suspects detained as part of the French probe in the rupture.
He entered Thailand in a tourist visa on February 8 through Phuket International Airport, before a detention order and a red notice of Interpol was issued against him, according to Thai police.
Thai authorities said they kept track of Correa with Phuket Kamala and Patong areas and arrested it on Wednesday.
His lawyer in France, Joseph Hazan, told the AFP on Thursday that his client had become himself.
« He appeared to the Thai authorities, with whom we have been in contact for several days, » said Hazan, adding that his client had not yet made a statement and that he would « explain to the French judges. »
Thai officials have canceled Correa’s visa and is now in Bangkok while their deportation to France is ordered.
Thailand and France do not have an extradition treaty, but the sources told the AFP that they expect Correa to be sent for a while next week.
« The Fly » has a history of violent crime, according to officials
Amra has a long history of sentences for violent crimes that began when he was only 15 years old, according to court sources.
« He is well known to the judiciary, » said Laure Beccuau, the Chief of Paris prosecutor.
Amra has links close to organized crime, said another source near the case that he requested not to be identified and suspected of ordering murders linked to drug trade.
Another source that he requested not to be named said that Amra runs his own drug trafficking network.
However, none of his previous 13 sentences, for crimes ranging from armed theft to extortion, was directly related to the narcotics business, said Beccuau.
He was imprisoned in January 2022 in Evreux prison in the North Region -Normandy west to comply with various sentences, including -by criminal conspiracy, extortion, robbery, armed violence and participation in an illegal engine engine.
At the time of his getaway, he also faced two new positions, one for the murder attempt and another to participate in a gangland slaughter in the southern city of Marseille in the French Riviera, a Drug Traffic Center and Band Violence.
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