The psychiatric disorders of the alleged author murder had escaped the law enforcement and caregivers, who had taken care of it.
Le Monde
The alleged author of a quadruple murder at night from 25 to 26 December 2016 in Chabeuil and Montvendre, in the Drôme, and Orange, in the Vaucluse, had been declared “irresponsible criminally” because of his condition Psychiatric, in December 2019. In the wake, the families of the victims had assigned the state for gross negligence and looks for responsibilities.
The Civil Chamber of the Judicial Court of Valencia felt that the State had failed in the unfolding of the facts preceding the murders. “He was considered responsible for the heavy fault committed by judicial police officers”, in this case gendarmes, in the follow-up to the assumption of the alleged author of the murders, “said Wednesday, December 15 , at the France-Presse agency, M e Alain strong. Insired by the latter, the procedure completes almost two years for the day after the decision of the Chamber of Investigation of the Grenoble Court of Appeal, according to which the presumed perpetrator was “irresponsible criminally”.
Gendarmes, Firefighters, Hospital
On December 25, 2016, Fissenou S., then 23 years old, takes a train for Paris, then Marseille. He travels without ticket and after an altercation with controllers, he descends to Valencia station. Very excited and holding incoherent remarks, it is taken by gendarmes that then entrust it to firefighters. The latter lead it to the hospital, from where it escapes.
Starts a murderous journey. At 2:45 am, on December 26, 2016, he killed Paulette Guyon, 79, stabbed in his bed in Chabeuil. Then, around 5 o’clock, he tackles a couple living in Montvendre. Marie-Thérèse Philibert and her husband Bernard, 65, receive respectively 27 and 23 knives. On the same day, on the car park of an orange supermarket, he knocks in his head with a stone Renée Knight, 65, who will succumb to his wounds.
Internaged in unity for difficult patients
“It was very obvious that the measure to be taken was to place it in custody. If it were in a weird state, it was necessary to have it examined by a psychiatrist and if it was not, seize it Obviously immediately the prosecutor of the Republic who would have made him judging in immediate appearance, “said strong, regretting” a calamic appreciation “of the situation by the military at the time.
In its decision, the Valentin Civil Chamber considers that, in fact, that “refrains from using a measure of constraint, necessary in the light of the seriousness of the persons committed and the personality of the person concerned, the officers of judicial police have committed heavy fault, engaging the responsibility of the State “.
Fissenou S. is interned for schizophrenia in unity for patients in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne).
The Valentin Civil Chamber has not granted any other damages to the families of the victims, the latter having already been compensated by the State.