Two flee French jail using bed sheets

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

 1news.media informs, citing France 24, guards noticed that they had escaped from the jail 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.