Attacked with a knife on Monday at the start of the afternoon at the CHU de Reims, the 38-year-old nurse, mother of two children, died of her injuries on Tuesday morning.
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A minute of silence will be observed Wednesday at noon, in all hospitals in France, asked the Minister of Health François Braun. The announcement follows the death of 38-year-old nurse Carène Mézino, attacked with a knife on Monday May 22 at the Maison-Blanche hospital in Reims, and died this morning. “I ask tomorrow noon in all hospitals, a minute of silence in tribute to Carène“, nurse whose fatal aggression “is a tragedy that annihilates us all“, he declared during the Santexpo exhibition organized by the Hospital Federation of France (FHF).
“I have just learned with great sadness of the death of Carène, a 38-year-old nurse who was violently attacked yesterday at the CHU de Reims“, wrote on his Twitter account the Minister of Health this Tuesday morning, “My thoughts are with his family, his colleagues, as well as all the hospital teams who were bereaved this morning.“The Reims prosecutor’s office confirmed the information to AFP on Tuesday, indicating that she had died”in the middle of the night” and “the charges against the detainee” had been “reclassified as assassination“. And to add:The autopsy has been scheduled.»
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A 56-year-old medical secretary was also seriously stabbedhad learned Le Figaro with the public prosecutor confirming information from The union . Early Monday afternoon, a 59-year-old man entered the unit “medicine and occupational health” and stabbed these two employees who were in a locker room. The vital prognosis of the nurse was engaged, prosecutor Matthieu Bourrette said Monday evening in a press release. The two victims were “still in extremely critical condition”according to the Minister of Health, who made a visit to the hospital last night.
“severe problems”
After the attack, the suspect fled but was quickly intercepted by hospital security officers. He is currently in police custody as part of the investigation opened for “assassination attempt” and entrusted to the Reims police station. “He seems to have acted without apparent motive, especially since he had no appointment in this service and was not followed within this service”emphasizes Matthieu Bourrette.
If he has never been convicted, this fifty-year-old has however already been prosecuted for acts of aggravated violence in Châlons-en-Champagne. This man, who “appears to suffer from severe disorders” according to the prosecution, had benefited from a dismissal for criminal irresponsibility. “This case was soon to be referred to the investigating chamber of the Reims Court of Appeal to rule on the security measures likely to be taken.“, adds the prosecutor.
“I will convene a committee before the end of the week with all the stakeholders, the unions, the professionals” For “see what can be done to guarantee even more safety for caregivers”, for his part promised the Minister of Health, François Braun. The French Hospital Federation (FHF) stressed in a press release that “this attack” registered “in a more general context marked, in recent years, by several acts of physical or verbal violence in public hospitals”.