Overview
- He escaped in early August during a transfer to a Nice hospital while in police custody, according to AFP-sourced reports.
- He had been arrested on August 8 in Nice in a drug-trafficking investigation overseen by an Ajaccio investigating judge.
- A European arrest warrant has been issued for him, according to sources cited by AFP.
- Several other arrests connected to the same investigation were made in Corsica and on the French mainland.
- In 2016 he was acquitted in the Yves Manunta killing but received 15 years for association of malefactors and organized arson, and he was placed under formal investigation for drug trafficking in November 2024.