Jacques Mesrine became France's most famous fugitive after a criminal career that crossed France and Canada. This episode follows his armed robberies, the Quebec kidnapping and acquittal in the Evelyne Le Bouthillier case, prison escapes, the high-security prison debate, the 1978 escape from La Sante, the Deauville casino robbery, the kidnapping of Henri Lelievre, the assault on journalist Jacques Tillier, and the police shooting that killed Mesrine at Porte de Clignancourt on 2 November 1979.

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