No less than two jail officers had been killed in northern France on Tuesday after armed assailants ambushed a convoy at a street tollbooth and freed an inmate, the French authorities stated.
Éric Dupond-Moretti, France’s justice minister, said on the social media platform X that three different jail officers had been significantly injured within the episode, which occurred close to Incarville, a city within the Eure space northwest of Paris.
President Emmanuel Macron stated the assault was a “shock to us all.”
“The Nation stands by the households, the injured and their colleagues,” he said on X.
Gérald Darmanin, France’s inside minister, said on X that “tons of” of law enforcement officials had been deployed to apprehend the escaped inmate and the assailants who had freed them.
“All the things potential is being finished to search out these criminals,” Mr. Darmanin stated.
Alexandre Rassaërt, the president of the native Eure council, stated in a statement that he was “chilled with horror to be taught of the carnage that befell.”
“I sincerely hope that the commando of killers who perpetrated this bloody assault might be swiftly arrested,” he stated.
