Racketeering, threats, sexual proposals … a mentally unbalanced person reigns fear, near Toulouse
Merchants of Saint-Orens-de-Gameville (31) have been suffering for weeks from outbursts and racketeering attempts by a mentally disordered man convicted of violence. They demand his compulsory hospitalization.
Shaila Babou had no choice. To ease her mind, she transformed her tobacco shop, rue des Lauriers, in Saint-Orens-de Gameville, into a small Fort Knox.
A friend, a former security guard, walks around with her every day. A secure door allows him in case of a hard blow to take shelter in the reserve. A few weeks ago, she saw an individual reappear who had made her live the most traumatic moment of her life. It was August 17, 2015. This old man in his twenties had entered his establishment, he was chasing an acquaintance, screaming that he wanted to kill her. Shaila and her customers had to barricade themselves at the back of the store before the gendarmes arrived. He had received a prison sentence.
“After that, I had to see a shrink for a year and take treatment, seeing him come back here terrified me. Especially since he comes every day! He is threatening and insulting with customers. He asks me for money. At one point, I gave in. I gave him four euros”, sighs the fifty-year-old.
She is not the only one to suffer the constant pressure of this man described by all the inhabitants of the Orée-du-Bois district as mentally unbalanced. Régis Caillive, the boss of the pizzeria La Calzone, tried somehow to “buffer” and tried to “control” the erratic behavior of the one who sows fear in the neighborhood. “He came to eat lunch and dinner. I gave him credit because he had lost his papers and could not withdraw money from the bank. I said stop the day he tried to extort me. He is terrorizing the entire mall and may have totally inappropriate components with women.”
“One day, there will be a drama!”
The employees of the driving school on the street experienced this as a mother. The guy in question, visibly in a daze, made sexual propositions to one of them, stroking his crotch. Since then, terrified, they have fermented their agency in two turns. He has just been arrested by the police after yet another run-in with local merchants. Things went wrong. Heavily drunk, he insulted the soldiers and struggled during his arrest. The 30-year-old was to be tried in corrections on Monday as part of the immediate comparison procedure. His mental state did not allow the trial to take place. He is currently confined to the Marchant hospital until the next hearing which should normally take place on November 4. “All of this is temporary. He needs to be hospitalized for a longer period of time. Otherwise, one day, there will be a tragedy!”, enrages Régis Caillive.
Serge Jop, the first city magistrate, does not sit idly by. He tries by all means to put an end to these disturbances to public order: “This individual presented himself several times to the town hall in a state of extreme excitement. I asked for his compulsory hospitalization twice. The medical services had not considered that his mental state required internment.”
“I urge residents to file a complaint”
The elected official, however, does not harbor any bitterness towards the practitioners or the authorities: “I am the mayor of a city, I do what I can and what I believe in my duty for the protection of my constituents. I think that the accumulation of facts will eventually make it possible to prevent the problems posed by this person. I urge the inhabitants who may have been attacked by this individual to file a complaint. As I did after he threatened several officers with death about ten days ago. This episode, and before his hospitalization, the thirty-something was placed under judicial supervision. He was strictly forbidden to go to the CCAS (municipal center for social action) or to the town hall of Saint-Orens-de-Gameville.