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Escaped Lyon Inmate Captured After Hiding in Co-Detainee’s Bag

His arrest has prompted investigations into serious security lapses at the Lyon-Corbas prison.

Le détenu de 20 ans qui s’était évadé vendredi de la prison de Corbas, a été interpellé lundi matin dans la métropole lyonnaise, a annoncé le parquet de Lyon lundi 14 juillet.
Le fugitif s’était évadé de la maison d’arrêt de Corbas dans un sac ce vendredi 11 juillet 2025.
La maison d'arrêt de Lyon-Corbas, à Lyon, en 2010.
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Overview

  • Elyazid A., 20, was arrested Monday morning in Sathonay-Camp by OCLCO and DCOS units after three days on the run.
  • He fled on July 11 by concealing himself in a cellmate’s release bag and slipped out of the Lyon-Corbas facility undetected.
  • The Parquet de Lyon opened criminal probes for organized escape and criminal association and the administration pénitentiaire launched an internal inquiry.
  • Prison director Sébastien Cauwel has admitted “a series of serious dysfunctions” that allowed the jailbreak to succeed.
  • Interpol had issued a red notice listing charges of murder in organized band, criminal association and illicit weapons transport, and the co-detainee accomplice remains at large.