They should make a movie

The Times has the bizarre story:

Like a scene from a crime thriller film, a prisoner who faced interrogation over a murder was shot to death inside his French jail by a sniper positioned on a nearby hill. The suspected gunman, his rifle still warm from the shooting, was later arrested as he tried to flee the scene on a motorbike. Another inmate, a friend of the dead man, was injured in the attack during which five shots were fired into the exercise yard of the jail at Varces-Grenoble, in southeast France. It was the first time in France that someone in prison had been killed from outside, French Justice Minister Rachida Dati said.
The murdered prisoner was identified by a French newspaper as Sghair Lamiri, who was born in 1979 and had links to organized crime. Lamiri was serving an eight-year sentence for robberies committed in 2001 and 2002 and was about to be questioned about a murder case, Dati said. Ms Dati did not name the suspected gunman, but said he was 58 years old and was in custody. "He denies the facts," she added, "but he was arrested when he was getting to his motorbike which had a false licence plate and his rifle with telescopic sight was still warm."

Rico says it'd take a lot of backstory to make it work, but it sounds like The Day of the Jackal to him...