The teenager took advantage of a medical transfer to escape from the Bonneville remand center (Haute-Savoie) this Sunday, December 24. He is still “actively wanted” by the Haute-Savoie gendarmerie.
A 17-year-old boy, detained at the Bonneville remand center in Haute-Savoie, took advantage of a medical transfer to escape this Sunday, December 24 and had still not been found on Monday, it was reported. learned from the Annecy public prosecutor’s office.
“This happened around 3:30 p.m. when he returned to the remand center. He had just been examined (Editor’s note: in a hospital center) and had nothing. He took advantage of the opening of the sliding door of the prison vehicle so that the driver can get in and escape,” public prosecutor Line Bonnet explained to AFP.
He had been relaxed for a week
The young defendant, in pre-trial detention for a week in the minors’ section for an armed robbery, “left on foot in a rural area, without an accomplice, not armed and partially restrained with one wrist handcuffed to the belt”, said added the magistrate.
The fugitive “would be quite dangerous,” a source close to the case told AFP. A “large gendarmerie system” was immediately put in place to find him with the support in particular of “a thermal vision drone and sniffer dogs”, according to the prosecutor.
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— Haute-Savoie Gendarmerie (@Gendarmerie_074) December 25, 2023
Around forty gendarmes were still mobilized on the ground this Monday, December 25, and a call for witnesses accompanied by a photo of the young man was published on social networks, the gendarmerie indicated.