Toulouse: the runaways from the Marchant hospital had obtained leave
The two patients with a dangerous profile who left the Marchant psychiatric hospital in Toulouse were on leave. One of them assaulted a resident.
How to explain the escape, four days apart, of two patients with a dangerous profile, interned at the Marchant psychiatric hospital in Toulouse? The simplest way in the world…, through the front door. According to our information, the two men who left the Gérard-Marchant psychiatric hospital last Wednesday and Sunday, before being found, have obtained leave. Authorization in good and due form, which is not surprising in a psychiatric environment.
These two individuals with a dangerous profile, both involved in sordid murder cases, had to return at a fixed time to the establishment on the road to Spain, in Toulouse. But it is by noting their absence that the administration therefore logically gave the alert.
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Wednesday, January 19, Jérémy Rimbaud, had taken advantage of his few hours of freedom to violently attack a resident, in the city center of Toulouse, before being arrested by the Bac. This former soldier had been declared criminally irresponsible after acts of cannibalism on a nonagenarian in 2013.
Schizophrenic disorders
As for the second patient, his runaway lasted less. Left late Sunday afternoon, this 48-year-old man, completed in 2010 in a case of attempted murder of a homosexual, was brought back by police officers from Bac, four hours later. He was drunk. The next day, after a brief episode of decompensation, he smashed the furniture in his room. These two patients are being treated for schizophrenic disorders.
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Jérémy Rimbaud should join the unit for difficult patients (UMD), of Albi. According to the CGT union at the Gérard-Marchant hospital center, 40 irresponsible criminal patients are followed in this place of care “and not of confinement”.
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Following these two cases, the general management of the ARS announces that it is carrying out “an on-site inspection mission to ensure the compliance of the care of these patients”. The management of the Marchant hospital remains silent on the two leave permissions.
Precautions
In a press release, she assures that the establishment “will make its full contribution to the investigation carried out by the Occitanie Regional Health Agency (ARS Occitanie)”. Permissions granted to patients are quite traditional. For several years now, psychiatry has been opening up to the outside world with precautions, “which does not prevent the morbid side of the disease from taking over”, estimates a specialist.
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“Patients are stabilized by neuroleptic treatments, but an acute episode can occur which remains rare”, confides a figure in national psychiatry. Statistically, these runaways are very rare. During these eight years spent at Marchant, Jérémy Rimbaud only once broke the rules. Had there been warning signs of such a passage to the act? Was his treatment still effective? This is what the ARS investigation should indicate in particular.