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Police in western France searched Wednesday for a 21-year-old man on a radicalization watch list who escaped from a prison vehicle during a transfer to a hospital.
An organization of French labor unions, Workers’ Force, said the handcuffed inmate shoved the prison employees accompanying him and got into a car waiting for him in front of the hospital.
French media said the prisoner was jailed for theft and not for terror-related offenses. The main newspaper for western France, Ouest-France, identified him as Anthony Pondaven, of Landerneau, and quoted a local prosecutor as saying Pondaven had a long record of delinquency.