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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Forest fugitive

France's most wanted fugitive ­ who escaped from prison in a cardboard box and lived in the woods for ten weeks ­ has been caught, the interior minister announced on Friday night.
Jean-Pierre Treiber, 47, a former forest worker and game-keeper, is accused of the kidnapping and double murder of a young couple in 2004. He had been on the run since September 8, when he shut himself into a cardboard box he had made and jumped from a lorry after it drove out of prison in Auxerre, Burgundy. His ability to survive in the forest had captured the French imagination ­ turning him into an anti-hero for some ­ but had become a source of great embarrassment to the police.