France will open its first prison dedicated to isolating the country's top 100 drug lords in July as part of efforts to stop inmates from running criminal networks from behind bars.

A massive manhunt is under way for a prisoner nicknamed “The Fly” freed in an ambush by gunmen who shot dead two prison officers escorting him in northern France. French Interior Minister ...

A suspected drugs boss nicknamed “The Fly” escaped when masked gunmen ambushed his prison van in northern France in a brazen attack that left two guards dead. The horror unfolded at a motorway ...