the assaulted woman files a complaint against the Marchant hospital in Toulouse
Françoise C., 73, had the fear of her life that Wednesday evening. On January 19 around 10 p.m., rue de la Balance in the Chalets district of Toulouse, a man emerged from between the cars and began to hit her with what looked like a broomstick. The septuagenarian owes his salvation only to a neighbor who comes running with an unloaded gun to bring the attacker into play before the police arrive.
The story could have started with a trivial assault if the perpetrator had not been a resident of the Marchant psychiatric hospital, a man known as “Cannibal of Nouilhan”, a former soldier who became schizophrenic who in 2013 brutally killed a 90-year-old man in a village in the Hautes-Pyrénées, by tearing out his heart and tongue which he ate. Jérémy Rimbaud, now 34 years old, has been found criminally irresponsible. He was staying at the Unit for Difficult Patients (UMD) at Cadillac in Gironde and had just been transferred to Toulouse, at the Gérard Marchant hospital for a short stay.
Since then, two other runaways of psychiatric patients in Toulouse in five days
Unsurprisingly, Françoise decided to file a complaint against both her attacker and the Marchant hospital. The ARS was organized on Tuesday an inspection at Marchant Hospital, as well as an administrative investigation.
Jérémy Rimbaud’s flight was followed four days later by another such incident, when a stabilized 48-year-old patient left for several hours on the road to Seysses. And this Thursday, January 27, it was a patient at the Purpan University Hospital psychiatry hospital who took to their heels for nearly six hours by triggering the fire system, before being arrested at the Carmelites. He was known to have driven into a group of students in Blagnac in 2017. The CHU specifies that the staff followed the runaway protocol to the letter.