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Newly surfaced court documents have unveiled that months before the inexplicable helicopter escape, the three Quebec inmates were already suspected of plotting an escape from jail and hence were in sights of prison and police officials. Despite known speculations, the three inmates managed to escape successfully and are now being hunted globally by Interpol, making them one of the world’s most wanted fugitives.
The admission that the authorities knew about a suspected escape being planned by the three has raised many questions about the authorities’ failings to prevent the jailbreak. According to the court documents, the inmates filed a request for relaxation of their detention conditions in order to prepare their defence on drug-trafficking charges in March. In addition to that, the suspects also faced murder charges. At the time, the three suspects were held under the tightest prison security rating at the Orsainville Detention Centre, limited to a more restrictive wing because of “information transmitted to prison authorities by the Sûreté du Québec police about a possible escape plot.”
Despite having the tightest security rating, for unexplained reasons, the three managed to not only plan but carry out their escape without any hitch. The helicopter lowered from the sky on June 7, and loaded the suspects from prison grounds, who had access to a less-secure prison yard and were unencumbered by handcuffs or leg shackles. A police analyst and former French police officer, Stéphane Berthomet, alleged that “it is incomprehensible, why was their security rating decreased? How could hardened criminals become lambs within a few months? These were dangerous people who wanted to escape. It defies common sense.”
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