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French 'getaway king' gangster handed 14 years in jail

Rédoine Faïd, a 51-year-old French armed robber whose dramatic jailbreaks earned him the nickname of 'getaway king', has been handed a 14-year prison sentence by a Paris court for his 2018 escape by helicopter from a prison where he was already serving 25 years for a botched heist in which a policewoman was killed.

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A career criminal and self-described "freedom addict" who escaped a French jail in a hijacked helicopter was sentenced to a further 14 years in prison on Thursday, reports FRANCE 24.

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