While in French Guiana he spent 11 years in prison, during this period he attempted to escape several more times resulting in increasingly brutal responses from his captors. Upon returning to civilization, he was quickly recaptured and sent back to French Guiana to be put into solitary confinement for the next 2 years. He spent several months living with the natives, but felt that he had to move on, which was a decision he would ultimately regret. Charrière subsequently escaped during a rainy night and fled to the La Guajira Peninsula, where he was adopted by an Indian tribe. The trio shipwrecked near the village of Riohacha, northern Caribbean Region of Colombia, and was imprisoned. After a brief imprisonment at the transit prison of Beaulieu in Caen, France, he was transported in 1933 to the prison of St-Laurent-du-Maroni on the Maroni River, in the penal settlement of mainland French Guiana.Īccording to the book, he made his first escape on 28 November 1933, 37 days later, joined by fellow prisoners André Maturette and Joanes Clousiot, who would accompany him throughout much of his time on the run. He was sentenced to life in prison and ten years of hard labour. According to his book, Papillon, Charrière was convicted on 26 October 1931 of the murder of a pimp named Roland Le Petit, a charge that he strenuously denied.
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