🚁❤️ Love, Risk, and a Daring Prison Escape

In 1986, love and audacity collided in one of France’s most dramatic prison escapes — orchestrated by Nadine Vaujour for her husband, Michel Vaujour.

🏛️ The Setup

Michel Vaujour was serving an 18-year sentence at La Santé Prison after convictions for armed robbery and attempted murder. A repeat escapee, this would be his fifth attempt.

Determined to free him, Nadine secretly:

• Trained as a helicopter pilot under a false identity

• Rented helicopters for months to practice

• Carefully coordinated the rooftop extraction

📅 May 26, 1986 — The Escape

On that day, Nadine piloted a helicopter over La Santé and hovered above the prison roof.

Inside, Michel reportedly bluffed guards using painted nectarines posed as grenades. He reached the rooftop, climbed a rope ladder, and boarded the helicopter in broad daylight. His accomplice surrendered, but the couple disappeared into Paris.

🚔 Months on the Run

They remained hidden for several months before being arrested in September 1986 following another bank robbery.

• Michel was shot during the arrest but survived.

• He ultimately served 27 years in prison before his release in 2003.

• Nadine was also imprisoned for her role in the escape.

The couple later separated.

💬 No Regrets

Years afterward, Nadine reportedly reflected on the daring act and said she would do it all again.

It remains one of the most cinematic real-life prison breaks in modern French history — a story where devotion blurred the line between romance and recklessness