On July 1st, 2018, south of Paris, one of France’s most fortified prisons witnessed a moment straight out of an action thriller. With armed guards, 17-foot walls, and anti-helicopter netting, it was supposed to be impenetrable. But inside cell 207, Redoine Faïd — a charismatic career criminal with a flair for the dramatic — was already planning his next great escape. Minutes later, a hijacked vintage helicopter swooped in, a team of masked men launched a surgical raid, and Faïd vanished into the sky once again. But this isn’t fiction. This is the jaw-dropping true story of how one man turned his obsession with crime films into real-life heists, prison breaks, and international headlines.