The patient was arrested in the 9th arrondissement of Paris this evening, more than 24 hours after leaving his place of internment.
A few days after the escape of the “cannibal of the Pyrenees”, a 43-year-old manknown for acts of rape and deemed dangerousfled early Friday afternoon from the Gérard Marchant psychiatric hospital in Toulouse.
This patient was arrested in the 9th arrondissement of Paris this Saturday evening, more than 24 hours after leaving his place of internment, AFP learned from the same source.
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Aged 43, he had been indicted for a rape committed in 2011 before a dismissal was pronounced in 2013, AFP learned from the prosecution. He is the third, in less than two weeks, to have escaped from this psychiatric hospital located south of Toulouse.
“Additional security measures had been requested by the director general of ARS Occitanie in the psychiatric services in Toulouse, to avoid any new patient runaways.“, However, explains the Regional Health Agency in a press release. These measures, which directly targeted the Gérard Marchant hospital and the Purpan university hospital center in Toulouse, involved, among other things, “securing entrances and exits” and “strengthening patient monitoring», Specifies the institution.
Last week, two patients from the same psychiatric hospital in Toulouse had also run away, before being located a few hours later, and interned again. These two men, suspected of murder, had been considered criminally irresponsible and could not be tried.
The first, a 34-year-old former soldier nicknamed the “cannibal of the Pyrenees“, escaped from Marchant hospital on January 19, before attacking a 72-year-old woman who was walking her dog in a residential area of Toulouse. He was indicted in 2013 for intentional homicide and acts of cannibalism. The second, aged 48, involved in a homicide in 2010, fled on Sunday before being arrested by the police.
The Occitanie Regional Health Agency has announced that it has asked the management of the Marchant hospital to open an administrative investigation and has launched an inspection mission.
The mayor of Toulouse Jean-Luc Moudenc assured Saturday to understand and share “the concern of the people of Toulouse. It is very legit!» «It is also important that the Regional Health Agency (ARS) communicates, quickly and transparently, the results of the inspection it has carried out“, he underlined in a press release.
Thursday, a third psychiatric patient had escaped from another establishment in Toulouse, the Purpan hospital, before being found a few hours later in the city center to be brought back to the hospital. In 2017, he deliberately ran into three Chinese students driving his car in a locality on the outskirts of Toulouse.
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