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Oct 2018
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French gangster recaptured after escapin...

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Redoine Faid, a notorious French criminal who escaped from jail twice, most recently in a dramatic helicopter escape, has been recaptured and is in jail again. Faid has lived a life of crime, moving from stealing candy and sweets to robbing banks and armored vehicles. He was serving a sentence for an armored vehicle robbery that killed a police officer. He was inspired by Hollywood movies and said the director of the movie Heat was his technical advisor. Plus, learn the English phrase “in reality.”

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