A suspected gangland killer described as France's "public enemy number one" was formally indicted on a slew of organised crime charges including murder before an investigating magistrate in Paris late Tuesday after his extradition from Romania.

An official in Romania says that the notorious French fugitive who staged a deadly escape that killed two guards last year is extradited to France from Romania, days after his arrest in Bucharest ende

Two guards were killed when armed assailants helped Mohamed Amra escape from a prison convoy last May, prompting a high-profile search.

Mohamed Amra had fled after armed men ambushed his prison transfer van, killing two officers and injuring three others. View on euronews

A suspected gangland killer described as France's "public enemy number one", who was arrested in Bucharest over the weekend after months of being on the run, has left Romania for

A French fugitive who staged a deadly escape that killed two guards last year is being extradited to France from Romania, an official says, days after his arrest in Bucharest ended a nine-month international manhunt.