Air Cocaine: press conference in Paris French pilot Pascal Fauret, who fled the Dominican Republic with his copilot Bruno Odos after they were sentenced to 20 years in jail on drug trafficking charges, explained on Tuesday that his "reflex" had been to return to France to express himself before a French court. Éric Dupont-Moretti, one of his lawyers, said that this escape was a "personal initiative" and not planned by "spooks paid by the French State". SOUNDBITES