A 19-year-old prisoner has been held captive for weeks after escaping from a French prison with bed sheets

French police on Thursday arrested a second prisoner who escaped from prison in late November sawing through cell walls and using bed sheetssources close to the case told AFP.

The 19-year-old suspect, suspected in a drug-related attempted murder case, was found in the southern port city of Marseille after Interpol issued a red notice for him, two sources close to the case told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

He and another inmate escaped from an overcrowded jail in the eastern city of Dijon after slashing their cellmates with knives that investigators suspect were delivered by drone.

Police tracked the Marseille native 310 miles south of the prison to a run-down apartment in the north of the city, known as a drug den.

The one who ran away with him, a 32-year-old man accused of violence against his partner they were arrested a day after they escapedwhen the police poured into the village bar where he was drinking coffee.

The Dijon public prosecutor’s office confirmed Thursday’s arrest to AFP, without providing further details.

France has some of the worst prison overcrowding in Europe, ranking third behind Slovenia and Cyprus, according to a Council of Europe report published in July. At the beginning of October, the national average was 135 prisoners in 100 places available. The Dijon prison, built in 1853, is in poor condition, with 311 inmates in 180 places, according to the justice department.

“Creative” blades.

Guards saw the two men escape from Dijon prison before dawn.

The 32-year-old left a message in his cell, saying he had been held “for too long,” according to Dijon public prosecutor Olivier Caracotch. It was not clear how long he was held.

Union official Ahmed Saih, who represents the prison police, told AFP shortly after the incident that the inmates were using “old saws,” and that other tools had been found in the past.

The saws may have been delivered by drones, Caracotch said following the escape, with several people already convicted of being delivered by drones at the same prison.

At the beginning of October, French prisons held 135 prisoners in 100 available places.

The Dijon prison, built in 1853, is in poor condition, with 311 inmates in 180 places, according to the justice department.

A week before the massacre, Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin announced that the Dijon facility was set to receive $7.3 million as part of a plan to eliminate cellphones from six French prisons.

The prison break came less than two weeks after another escape in the northwestern city of Rennes. The 37-year-old suspect, who had more than a year to serve for theft, escaped on November 14 when he and other inmates were escorted to a planetarium in the city. He was later captured in the nearby city of Nantes.

Last year, the boss of one of Italy’s most violent gangs who escaped from a maximum security prison last year using sheets was killed. captured in France, authorities in both countries said on Friday. Marco Raduano, described as “dangerous” on Europol’s list of Europe’s most wanted criminals, is being held in Bastia on the French island of Corsica.