DIJON, France — France on Friday caught one of two detainees who used bed sheets to escape from prison a day earlier after sawing through the bars of their cell, a prosecutor said.

France has some of the worst prison overcrowding in Europe, and staff unions have complained the state is neglecting normal jails as it moves narco criminals into new high-security prisons.

The man was arrested south of Dijon, where the jailbreak occurred, said the eastern city’s prosecutor, Olivier Caracotch.

He said the person caught was thought to be the older of the pair, a 32-year-old man accused of violence against a partner.

That would mean a 19-year-old suspected of attempted murder in a drug-linked case was still on the run. A local prosecutor said on Thursday he was suspected of having been recruit

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