00:00In 2001, a French prisoner escaped from jail in a helicopter.
00:05He did it again in 2003, and again in 2007.
00:11His name was Pascal Paillet.
00:14In 1997, he robbed an armored car outside a bank in southern France.
00:20A guard was killed.
00:22Paillet was arrested in 1999 and locked in Luen's prison.
00:2830-year sentence.
00:30Two years later, his friends hijacked a helicopter.
00:34They flew it to the prison, landed in the yard.
00:39Paillet climbed aboard.
00:41They flew away.
00:43The average prisoner would disappear.
00:45He did not disappear.
00:48In 2003, while still a fugitive, he organized another helicopter.
00:53This time, he flew back to the same prison he had escaped from and broke out three of his friends.
01:02Paillet escaped from Luen's, then flew back to Luen's to get his crew.
01:07They were caught three weeks later.
01:12Paillet was transferred between 30 different prisons in 30 months.
01:16Paillet, placed in solitary confinement.
01:19Paillet, classified as the most closely watched prisoner in France.
01:24On July 14, 2007, Bastille Day, the French holiday that celebrates the storming of a prison,
01:32four masked men, four masked men hijacked a helicopter in Cannes.
01:36They flew to Gras Prison, landed on the roof, entered the building.
01:42Five minutes later, they walked out with Paillet.
01:47No shots fired, no guards harmed.
01:51The pilot was released unharmed.
01:55Paillet was captured two months later in Spain.
01:59After the third escape, they strung steel nets over every prison yard in France.
02:05They classified his location.
02:08They moved him every six months.
02:11France banned helicopters from flying near prisons because of one man.
