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  • Gang attacks French jail with bazooka,frees inmate

    03/12/2003 2:44:36 AM PST · by Straight Vermonter · 27 replies · 226+ views
    Reuters ^ | 03/12/2003
    PARIS, March 12 (Reuters) - A commando-style gang used a bazooka to blow its way into a prison near Paris and free one of the inmates in a pre-dawn raid on Wednesday, officials said. The gang of four or five men machine-gunned watchtowers at the prison, in Fresnes to the east of the French capital and near Disneyland Paris, before rushing inside to the cell of Antonio Ferrara, who was serving time for organised crime. "The commando gang entered the high-security section of the prison and gave Antonio Ferrara explosives which allowed him to blow open the bars on the...