Movie stuff is movie stuff. However, like all art, motivation arises in everyday life. But this time it may have been the other way around, and the "Prison Break?" series may be to blame. Is it an unusual one? We don't know, but the fact is that a 20-year-old broke into a police station and freed eight inmates. 

The act occurred on Thursday of last week, when it was around 10:00 pm, in the third police station of the city of Beira, in Sofala province. The citizen was arrested and with him the police recaptured one of the detainees. So far seven are still at large.

According to one of the recaptured men, the intruder, identified as Carlos, jumped over the wall of the police station and opened the two cells with the intention of making his friend, Julião, escape.

"He ran away with his friend who was coming to rescue here, Julião. They got on the motorcycle and left together," he said, quoted by Miramar, to whom he revealed that "here in the cell we were ten [people]. Eight people escaped and two stayed. I was captured and seven are on the run."

Family members of the accused disagree with the version advanced by the PRM in Beira and demand the young man's release. "At that time of the escape he was at home. That is hard to believe. That we have only seen in the movies."

The PRM in Beira, which does not understand the lack of attention of the agents assigned to the garrison that day to the point of not noticing the invasion, promises to speak out today about the case. A Commission of Inquiry has been set up to investigate the circumstances in which everything happened.

For security reasons, Carlos is now being held at the sixth PRM police station in that city.