Sentenced for a double assassination in Nice, the escapee from the prison of Mauzac imprisoned in the Landes

Philippe Dubois, the prisoner sentenced to twenty-eight years in prison for a double murder in Nice who escaped Monday from the unsecured farm school of Mauzac-et-Grand-Castang prison (Dordogne), must be imprisoned again this Thursday in Mont-de-Marsan, in the Landes department, announced the Bergerac prosecution.

Arrested Wednesday morning in Nice, this 54-year-old man was brought before an examining magistrate “with a view to an indictment for facts of repeated escape and participation in a criminal association”, specified the Public Prosecutor of Bergerac Sylvie Martins-Guedes. The ex-fugitive incurs “a ten-year prison sentence due to the state of legal recidivism”. He will be, “whatever happens”, transferred and “imprisoned in the penitentiary center of Mont-de-Marsan to continue the execution of his convictions”, announced the prosecution.

“Violence against staff and fellow prisoners”

The detainee was serving several sentences, one of which was pronounced on appeal in 2008 to twenty-eight years in prison. He had been convicted with two accomplices for the assassination, in 2002 in Nice, of Francine Véran-Raspini and her son Marc, owners of an important heritage.

According to a prison union source, Philippe Dubois, who was released in May 2026, “had been talked about for acts of violence against staff and fellow prisoners” in previous establishments. But he had “no longer committed any incidents for four or five years” and was in a “positive process of reintegration”.

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