A 26-year-old man with psychiatric disorders and known to the police injured three people with a knife at Montauban hospital on March 29, 2023.
Assault on hospital grounds. On Wednesday March 29, a man, whose colleagues from france blue report that it is a psychiatric patientattacked three people in the corridors of the Montauban hospital (Tarn-et-Garonne).
Three injured
The victims of these beatings were not patients. This is a 43-year-old woman, laboratory worker analysis hospital injured in the back and neck, a 57-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman, both DDT agents (departmental directorate of territories). They had come to eat at the establishment’s self-service restaurant.
The “superficial injuries” of the first victim were operated on in the afternoon, indicates a union source to our colleagues. His state of health is stable. After attacking the laboratory worker, the assailant tried to flee but injured the two people working for the DDT in the process.
Background
The alleged attacker is a psychiatric patient, known to the dedicated unit of the hospital. He too was injured.
If he has no criminal record, he is known to the police. This month, he received a two-month suspended prison sentence for acts sexual assault, which should soon appear in his criminal record, administrative delay requires. In addition, he has already spent a night at the police station earlier this week for having set fire to a car and a trash can. A psychiatrist was able to speak with him and indicated that compulsory hospitalization was not necessary.
Arrested by the police, he was taken into custody on Wednesday afternoon and questioned for the first time for tentative d’homicide. Our colleagues indicate that he should not be presented to a judge before Wednesday.
The hospital opened a psychological cell dedicated to the staff, in shock, of the establishment. The facts took place in the middle of the day, around 12:15 p.m.
