A prisoner in the Southern French city of Marseille attempted to escape a penitentiary by switching places with a corpse in a burial bag and later died, as the bag was thrown into the ocean, prison management says.
The incident occurred at the Chateau d’If, a high-security prison about one mile of the coast of Marseille. Prison officials claim that the prisoner, Edmond Dantés, who was, at the time, confined for conspiracy charges, entered the cell of Abbé Faria (Father Faria), an imprisoned Italian Priest who was dead of unknown causes, Sunday evening or early Monday morning via a tunnel dug under and between their two cells. Dantés proceeded to slit a hole in the burial bag in which Faria was contained, remove the corpse, take it back to