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The escape occurred this week at the Maison d’arrêt de Dijon

The inmates are 19 and 32 and were being held in separate violent-crime cases

Staff and unions said they had warned for months about saw blades and a potential breakout amid overcrowding and underfunding

Two inmates in France escaped custody after allegedly sawing through the bars of their cells and using bed sheets to get out of the building before dawn, according to multiple news reports.

The escape occurred this week at the Maison d’arrêt de Dijon, the main detention facility in the eastern French city of Dijon, according to AFP , La Dépêche and Le Dauphiné Libéré .

AFP reports that prosecutor Olivier Caracotch said the pair “seem to have sawn through bars” and “fled using bed sheets,” according to

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