Police are looking for a 30-year-old man who escaped from Montreal's Pinel Institute for the criminally insane.

Jean-Francois Lussier was held at the institute in connection with a series of violent crimes.

He had been found not responsible for the crimes because of mental difficulties.

On Wednesday morning he broke a second-floor window and fled.

Police say he's dangerous.

Anyone with information on Lussier's whereabouts is asked to call police at 1-800-659-4264.