Somehow he managed to take four guards hostage and then used explosives to blow doors out, to make his escape.
He then escaped via a car, which has since been found, but with no trace of the prisoner.
Officials are unsure how the explosives made their way into the prison.
Redoine Faid was serving an eight year term, for his part in a failed robbery which left a police officer dead in 2010.
Faid, a lifelong criminal, gained acclamation when he wrote a book about his life of crime.
Since then, he has been highly sought after, by news agencies, as an expert on criminal activity.
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