Miscellaneous – Justice | Toulouse: fourth runaway in ten days from a psychiatric ward
A new patient fled from the Gérard Marchant psychiatric hospital in Toulouse on Friday, said the Occitanie Regional Health Agency about this fourth runaway of a dangerous individual in ten days in this city.
This patient still at large, aged 43, is known for acts of rape, we learned from a source close to the investigation. He is the third, in less than two weeks, to escape from this psychiatric hospital located south of Toulouse.
“Additional security measures had been requested by the director general of ARS Occitanie in the psychiatric services in Toulouse, to avoid any new patient runaways.“, however, explains the ARS in a press release.
These measures, which directly targeted the Gérard Marchant hospital and the Purpan university hospital center in Toulouse, involved, among other things”securing entrances and exits” and “strengthening patient monitoring“, specifies the institution.
Last week, two patients from the same psychiatric hospital in Toulouse had also run away, before being located a few hours later, and interned again.