A French detainee took advantage of a trip to a Paris museum this week to escape, a prosecutor's office said Friday, January 31,adding it had objected to him taking part in the first place. The 28-year-old, who had been placed in detention for violence, managed to run off at the busy Gare du Nord train and metro station on Wednesday during a day out to visit the Musée de l'Homme anthropological museum, it said.

It was not immediately clear when he had been originally arrested, or what he was doing at the train station. Prison guard union FO Justice said he had been on his way back to his detention center in the Paris suburb of Villepinte at the time.

He and five other inmates had been accompanied by five probation officers and a detention center guard, who ran after the fugitive but failed to catch him, it said. The man is still on the run.