Two fleece French jail using bed sheets

Lyon:Two detainees at a French prison saw through the bars of their cell and escaped using bed sheets overnight, a prosecutor said Thursday, in the se...

Lyon: Two detainees at a French prison saw through the bars of their cell and escaped using bed sheets overnight, a prosecutor said Thursday, in the second such incident in recent weeks.

Guards noticed that they had escaped from the prison in the eastern city of Dijon shortly before dawn, the prison service said, without adding how exactly they made it out.

The pair "seem to have sawn through bars" and "fled using bed sheets", Dijon prosecutor Olivier Caracotch said, without providing further details on how exactly they did it.

The fugitives are a 19-year-old man held in pre-trial detention since October 2024 for attempted murder in a drug-related case, and a 32-year-old man incarcerated since 2023 over threats and violence against a partner, Caracotch said.

The prison break comes 10 days after another escape in the western city of Rennes.