At least two prison officers were killed in northern France on Tuesday after armed assailants ambushed a convoy at a road toll booth and freed one inmate, French authorities said on Tuesday.
Eric Dupont Moretti, Minister of Justice of France, Said on social media platform X Three other prison officers were seriously injured in the incident, which took place near Incarville, a town in the Eure region northwest of Paris.
President Emmanuel Macron said the attack was a “shock for all of us”.
“The state stands with the families, the injured and their colleagues,” he said. said in X.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said in X It said “hundreds” of police officers were called in to arrest the escaped prisoners and the attackers who freed them.
“Everything possible is being done to find these criminals,” Darmanin said.
Alexandre Lassalle, president of the local Eure city council, said: statement He said he was “chilled with fear when I learned that a massacre had occurred.”
“I sincerely hope that the murder squad that carried out this bloody attack are quickly arrested,” he said.