Belgian Helicopter Jailbeak: Three Convicts Still at Large

by Jordan Yerman | July 24, 2009 at 08:59 am

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Three prisoners engineered a daring jailbreak in Belgium. The trio managed to organize a pickup by helicopter. An accomplice booked a helicopter tour with pilot Ludwig Louwagie, and then hijacked the helicopter, forcing Louwagie to fly to the Bruges jail. One of the accomplices was abandoned at the prison, and will be charged by police soon.

The escapees took the helicopter to Aalter and stole a car at a gas station, driving towards Netherlands.

The three have been identified as Mohammed Johry, Abdel Had Kahjary Mulloul and Ashraf Sekkaki.

Sekkaki, 26 and described by a justice ministry spokesman as "a real psychopath", has spent much of the last decade behind bars for his part in around a dozen attacks on banks, some of them involving hostages.

I can't imagine that abandoning one the accomplices was part of the plan, so there must have been a very tense struggle leading up to his getting ditched.

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