Exactly 20 Years Ago, Our Country's Biggest Escape Took Place: “The Prison Guard Suddenly Felt Cold Metal Pricking His neck.”

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They managed to open the rusted locks on their cell doors with a piece of metal from the window frame. And a telephone booth helped them clamber over the prison wall. Exactly twenty years ago today, on August 18, 2006, 28 inmates escaped from Dendermonde prison. We reconstruct ‘The Great Escape’, the biggest escape ever in our country. “New locks were already ready, but they still had to be painted a different color first.”