Gangster Recaptured After Spectacular Prison Escape

France's "most wanted man," the gangster who infamously broke out of prison last month by using explosives to bust through doors and holding guards hostage, has finally been recaptured after a six-week international manhunt. Notorious career criminal Redoine Faid and an accomplice were arrested in a hotel outside of Paris last night, reports AFP. "There was no exchange of gunfire, and the arrest happened in good conditions," police told a radio station, as per the Local.

Faid spent a decade in prison for robbery before being released on parole and gaining celebrity status in France through a 2010 autobiography and associated interviews, in which he claimed to have reformed, reports CNN. But Faid returned to prison in 2011 for breaking parole conditions, remaining there until his headline-grabbing jailbreak last month, in which he reportedly used explosives hidden in a tissue box to demolish four prison gates, reports the Local. (More Redoine Faid stories.)