Escape attempt with bedsheets thwarted at Paris prison

PARIS — French situation guards thwarted an flight effort from the Paris region’s second-largest jailhouse connected Sunday, with French media identifying the would-be escapee arsenic a suspected Islamic State sympathizer who dug a spread successful the partition of her compartment and rappelled retired connected knotted sheets.

The Justice Ministry said the captive was caught Sunday morning. Guards instantly inspected each of the women’s cells astatine the Fresnes situation to guarantee that different prisoners were accounted for, and an probe was opened, the ministry said.

It gave nary different details.

Broadcaster France Info said the detainee was jailed aft she travelled to Syria to articulation the Islamic State group. It said question detectors alerted guards that she had escaped from her cell, aft she climbed down connected bedsheets done a hole.