This fugitive patient, 43, is known for rape facts, has been learned from a source close to the investigation.
Le Monde with AFP
This is the fourth fugue of a dangerous individual in ten days in Toulouse. A new patient ran away from the Gérard-walnet psychiatric hospital Friday, January 28, reported the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Occitania. This still patient, 43, is known for reports of rape, we learned from a source close to the investigation. It is the third, in less than two weeks, to escape from this psychiatric hospital located south of Toulouse, while a Patient in Psychiatry of the Purpan Hospital had also had to be sought after a few hours on Thursday.
“Additional security measures had been requested by the Director General of the ARS Occitanie in the psychiatry services in Toulouse, to avoid any new fugue patient,” explains the ARS in a communiqué . These measures, which directly targeted the Gérard-Marchant Hospital and the Purpan University Hospital of Toulouse, involved, among other things, “Securing Entrances and Outputs” and “Strengthening Patient Monitoring”, specifies the institution.
Criminal irresponsible
Last week, two patients of the same Toulouse psychiatric hospital had disappeared, before being found a few hours later, and interned again. These two men, suspected of murders, had been considered criminally irresponsible and could not have been judged.
The first, a former 34-year-old military nicknamed the “Cannibal of the Pyrenees”, escaped from Gérard-walntent Hospital on January 19, before attacking a 72-year-old woman who walked his dog in a residential area of Toulouse. It had been examined in 2013 for voluntary homicide and cannibalism.
The second, 48 years old, involved in a homicide in 2010, fled on Sunday, before being arrested by the police. The Ars Occitanie announced that he asked the management of the Gérard-walntent Hospital the opening of an administrative investigation and diligently had an inspection mission. Thursday, a third patient in psychiatry had escaped from another Toulouse institution, the Purpan Hospital, before being found a few hours later in the city center to be brought back to the hospital. In 2017, he had deliberately dark on three Chinese students driving his car in a locality on the outskirts of Toulouse.