Overview

• Angel, 19, slipped away from the Versailles tribunal on June 6 while awaiting a judge’s decision in his attempted murder hearing for a shooting on January 25 in Verneuil-sur-Seine.
• He escaped after officers removed his handcuffs to take him to a restroom, disappearing via the courthouse stairs and exit doors.
• Surveillance footage tracked him to 42 rue des Chantiers and later showed him entering an apartment near the Versailles-Chantiers train station.
• The Versailles public prosecutor has opened an evasion inquiry and assigned it to the Division de la criminalité organisée et spécialisée (DCOS).
• Sniffer dogs, anti-crime squads and specialized investigators are scouring Versailles, and authorities are following up on a tip that he forced a motorist to drive him to the train station.