The alleged perpetrator of a deadly assault this Monday at the CHU de Reims would have struck at random. This is what emerges from the first elements of the investigation after the facts perpetrated at the beginning of the afternoon
inside the hospital, against a 38-year-old nurse and a 56-year-old medical secretary.
The Minister of Health François Braun, who went there in the evening, announced on Tuesday the death of the nurse
. The other victim, the secretary, is less seriously affected. The investigation entrusted to the central police station in Reims has been reclassified as assassination and attempted assassination.
A man who seems to suffer from severe disorders
The suspect, a 59-year-old man, is known to police. In 2017 he had wounded four people with a knife
members of the nursing and supervising staff of an ESAT (help service through work) where he had worked in horticulture for twenty years, an establishment located in Meix-Tiercelin in the Marne.
Indicted for aggravated violence, he had never been convicted in this case, having obtained a dismissal order for criminal liability. Psychiatric expertise had then concluded that his discernment had been abolished. However, the investigating chamber of the Reims Court of Appeal was due to rule on appeal on this case very soon. The hearing was to be held on Friday. Given the new circumstances, the suspect’s lawyer will request the dismissal at a later date.
The alleged assailant had also been the subject, for several years, of a measure of reinforced curatorship. A measure intended to protect a person and their property, in acts of civil life.
This Monday, May 22, the fifty-year-old went – for no apparent reason – to occupational medicine and health unit from the University Hospital of Reims. No appointment had been given to him in this service where he was not followed. On the other hand, the service in which the tragedy took place adjoins the psychiatry service that the individual attended, told AFP Sandrine Calvy, CGT-Santé manager in the Marne.
He says he wants to “take revenge” on the hospital environment
This is where, around 1:25 p.m., this man is suspected of having first assaulted a 38-year-old nurse in the changing rooms of the CHU, wearing him stab wounds to the chest, abdomen and thighs. Injuries from which she died a few hours later. Alerted by the cries of the victim, a 56-year-old medical secretary joined her and was in turn attacked in the thighs. The assailant then tried to flee before being intercepted by hospital security officers and then the police who arrived on the scene.
Described by the Minister of Health as having “psychiatric history”the suspect indicated during his arrest resent the hospital environment, according to information from franceinfo. Making incoherent remarks, he claimed to have been mistreated for several years in psychiatric circles and assured that each time he comes across a white coat, he “will plant” For “get revenge”.
The suspect is still in custody on Tuesday, in a medical environment in a specialized clinic.