A jailbreak of the kind usually dreamed up for Hollywood screenplays unfolded in real life on Sunday in France when a helicopter landed in a prison courtyard and masked men leaped out and spirited away a well-known criminal.
Rédoine Faïd, 46, was serving 25 years for his part in a 2010 robbery that resulted in the death of a young police officer.
It was not the first time Faïd had escaped from prison. In 2013, he took four prison guards hostage while using plastic explosives to blast his way through five sets of prison doors. Faïd was recaptured several weeks later.
On this occasion, Faïd was in the prison visitors’ room when three armed men clad in black landed a small helicopter in the facility's central courtyard. Two of the men ran inside, used a grinding machine to cut through the doors to the visiting area and, with Faïd in tow, raced back to the helicopter.
Faïd, who grew up in the poor outskirts of Paris, was known in the 1990s for being part of a ring of thieves who specialized in robbing armored vans used to transport money and other valuables. He served 10 years of a 20-year sentence before being released on good behavior. On emerging from prison then, he wrote an autobiography, “Gangster: From the Slums to Big Crime.” The book's blurb on the French Amazon website describes him as being a long way from the petty thieves of the slums and instead one of the “criminal aristocracy.”
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jailbreak/ˈdʒeɪlbreɪk/
n. 越狱
convict/ˈkɑːn.vɪkt/
n. 囚犯
flee/fliː/
v. 逃跑
e.g.
flee the country
unfold/ʌnˈfoʊld/
v. （故事情节）展开；呈现
blast/blæst/
v. 炸毁；爆破
e.g.
A tunnel was to be blasted through the mountains.
recapture/ˌriːˈkæptʃər/
v. 重新抓获；重新占领
e.g.
the recapture of Faïd（n.)
recapture the city
clad/klæd/
adj. 穿...衣服的
e.g.
a leather-clad biker
an ivy-clad wall
outskirts/ˈaʊtskɜːrts/
n. 郊区
ring/rɪŋ/
n. 团伙
e.g.
a drug ring
armored/ˈɑːrmərd/
adj. 装甲的
gangster/ˈɡæŋstər/
n. 黑帮分子
slum/slʌm/
n. 贫民窟
blurb/blɜːrb/
n. （书；电影）简介
petty /ˈpeti/
adj. 无足轻重的
e.g.
petty crime
petty criminal
petty theft
dream up
构想出（荒诞不经的事）
e.g.
He was continually dreaming up schemes.
leap out
立即进入（某人）的视线
e.g.
Her picture leapt out at me.
spirit away
偷走；拐走
e.g.
His parents had spirited him away to the country.
take (sb) hostage
劫持；扣留人质
e.g.
The entire family was taken hostage by the robber.
The robber took the entire family hostage.
grinding machine
磨床
in tow
（在身后）拖着
e.g.
Your car will be towed away.
a mother with three children in tow
emerge from
丛（隐蔽处）出现；出来
e.g.
On arriving home I discovered they all had gone.
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