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Episode #462

We Own This Table

#462 We Own This Table
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Karen:

The story of French criminal Michel Vaujour

Episode sources:

  1. “My Greatest Escape” by Fabienne Godet

  2. “My Greatest Escape” by Fabienne Godet (media materials)

  3. “A Paris Prisoner Flees by Copter” by Richard Bernstein (New York Times) 1986

  4. “A French convict escaped from prison using grenades....sort of.” By Adam Azra’el (The Lesser Stories)

  5. “Michel Vaujour, the king of escape: "I was very affected by my first prison sentence" by Christophe Hondelatte (Europe 1) 2018

  6. “The ‘King of Escape’” (El País) 2009

  7. “Mystery woman helps gaolbird to fly / Michel Vaujour makes helicopter escape from France’s La Sante prison in Paris” by Paul Webster (The Guardian) 1986

  8. “Copter lifts prisoner to freedom” (Chicago Tribune) 1986

  9. “Police identify pilot in helicopter prison break” by Marie Colvin (UPI) 1986 

  10. “Escape in Paris” by A.G. Gamero (AG Noticias) 2021

  11. “15 Great Things About The 14th Arrondissement Of Paris” (Paris Insiders Guide)

  12. “Michel Vaujour, Episode 2 - The story” by Christophe Hondelatte/Hondelatte Tells” (Europe 1) 2023

  13. “Helping Michel escape meant breaking with my life” (The Union – The Ardennes) 2021

  14. “Former robber Michel Vaujour: "Redoine Faïd? I don't give a damn" (Liberation) 2018 

  15. “Michel Vaujour, Episode 1 - The story (1/2)” by Christophe Hondelatte/Hondelatte Tells” (Europe 1) 2024

  16. "Don't release me, I'll take care of it": portrait of the prisoner as his own jailer” by Jean-Luc Douin (Le Monde) 2009

  17. “Michel Vaujour, a former French gangster and a recent Muslim today” (Rahyafte) 2023

 

Nadine Vaujour and Michel Vaujour

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