VILLEPINTE: INSIDE THE ESCAPE OF THE YEAR | M6 | 66 minutes

It’s something never seen before.
Three fake police officers, flashing counterfeit badges and a forged arrest warrant, walk into a prison to extract a dangerous inmate — and walk out just as calmly.
An escape straight out of a movie, the kind Hollywood screenwriters usually invent.
And yet, this is exactly what happened last Saturday at the Villepinte remand prison.
The method was carefully orchestrated by a criminal gang to free Ilyas Kherbouch, known as “Ganito.”
Barely 20 years old, he already has a long criminal record: half a dozen convictions.
Robberies with violence as part of an organized gang, kidnapping, unlawful detention, acts of torture…
He served his first prison sentence at just 14.
A highly violent but extremely intelligent individual, who — even while incarcerated — is believed to have masterminded a home-jacking targeting Gianluigi Donnarumma, former PSG goalkeeper.
Who is Ilyas Kherbouch?
How did he fall into violence and organized crime at such a young age?
How did this audacious escape unfold, minute by minute?
And what flaws in the system has it exposed?
A look back at an extraordinary prison break.