France’s most wanted gangster has been caught three months after he pulled off a spectacular, Hollywood-style jailbreak in a helicopter that landed in his prison courtyard.

Redoine Faïd, 46, a career criminal dubbed the “jailbreak king” and who has compared himself to Scarface, was arrested along with three others in a dawn raid in a housing estate in the Oise region north or Paris.

Dozens of masked police also seized his brother Rachid and two of the gangster's nephews arrested along with the apartment's landlady, according to police sources. Two guns were found in the flat, while two other alleged accomplices were arrested during a simultaneous raid in the Paris region, sources said.

Edouard Philippe, the prime minister, hailed the "meticulous" police work that led to the arrests, saying in a tweet that they had pulled off the high-stakes operation "without any clashes”.

Faïd, who previously escaped from prison in 2013 before being captured six weeks later, had been serving a 25-year term over a botched 2010 heist in which a policewoman was killed. He claims her death was accidental.

In his latest, audacious escape on July 1, two men posing as flight-school students forced a helicopter instructor at gunpoint to fly them to the jail where he landed in the courtyard - the only part of the prison not fitted with anti-helicopter nets.