• Philippe Dubois, notably sentenced in 2008 to twenty-eight years in prison for a double murder in Nice, escaped from the detention center of Mauzac-et-Grand-Castang, Dordogne.
  • This 54-year-old man "managed to evade the surveillance of the agents" and to flee, on foot, while he was "in training at the farm school" of this atypical prison, since semi-open, said the prosecutor's office of Bergerac.
  • Philippe Dubois had been found guilty, with two other men, of the murder of his owner, Francine Raspini, and her son, found buried in a wood in Nice in 2003, a year after their disappearance.

He made the trunk Monday, around 12:30. Philippe Dubois, notably sentenced in 2008 to 28 years in prison for a double murder in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), escaped from the detention center of Mauzac-et-Grand-Castang, Dordogne, said the prosecutor of Bergerac in a statement sent to 20 Minutes.

This 54-year-old man, whose request for leave had recently been refused, "managed to evade the surveillance of the officers" and to flee, on foot, while he was "in training at the farm school" of this atypical prison, since semi-open. Philippe Dubois participated in this activity organized "on an area located on the right of way of the prison but outside the secure and closed area of detention" since February, says the prosecutor.



The case of the "disappeared of Gairaut"

Since then, it's been a battle cry. Philippe Dubois is the subject of a research mandate. "All means were implemented by the gendarmes of the Bergerac company to find his trace. The search is intensifying to locate and arrest the person concerned but also to identify any complicities he may have benefited from to achieve his ends, "also said the prosecutor's office on Tuesday.

Philippe Dubois, who was serving several sentences, had received life imprisonment in the case of the "disappeared of Gairaut", an opulent hill in Nice. He had been convicted, along with two other men, of the murder of his owner, Francine Raspini, and her son, who were found buried in a wood in 2003, a year after their disappearance. In 2008, the Assize Court of Bouches-du-Rhône reduced his sentence to twenty-eight years in prison, which he began serving in another prison. He had been transferred to the Mauzac detention center in September 2022, says the prosecutor's office, according to which "his end of sentence was set for May 2026".

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