France on Friday caught one of two detainees who used bedsheets to escape from prison a day earlier after sawing through the bars of their cell, a prosecutor said.
The man was arrested south of Dijon, where the jailbreak occurred, said the eastern city’s prosecutor, Olivier Caracotch.
He said the person caught was thought to be the older of the pair, a 32-year-old man accused of violence against a partner.
That would mean a 19-year-old suspected of attempted murder was still on the run.
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez congratulated police for having arrested “one of the two individuals who escaped yesterday from the Dijon detention centre”, in a message on social media.
Guards noticed the two men had fled on Thursday before dawn.
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