Police in France were hunting for two prisoners who escaped from a jail using bedsheets after sawing through the bars of their cell.
France has some of the worst prison overcrowding in Europe, and staff unions have complained that the state was neglecting normal jails as it moved narco criminals into new supermax prisons.
Guards noticed that the two men had escaped from the jail in the eastern city of Dijon shortly before dawn, the prisons authority said on Thursday.
The pair “seem to have sawn through bars” and “fled using bedsheets”, Dijon prosecutor Olivier Caracotch said, without providing further details on how exactly they used the bedding.
The fugitives included a 19-year-old man held in pre-trial detention for attempted murder, he said.
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