Big moment of panic this Tuesday afternoon at the Saint-Brieuc judicial court (Côtes-d’Armor) where a defendant who had just stabbed himself in the enclosure was taken care of by the emergency services. The scene took place around 2 p.m. in the courthouse where this 53-year-old man was to be tried in criminal court for acts of breach of trust to the detriment of a vulnerable person, we learned from the prosecution. from the city.
Before his case was called, the defendant allegedly asked the court to be able to be assisted by a lawyer. The bailiff asked him to sit down and wait. The defendant then left the courtroom before going to the toilets on the ground floor and striking himself “in the stomach with a kitchen knife in his possession”, specifies Nicolas Heitz, prosecutor of the Republic of Saint-Brieuc.
Quickly attended to by emergency services, the man was transported conscious to hospital with the knife still in his stomach. “His life does not appear to be in danger,” indicates the prosecution. An investigation was opened by the police to try in particular to understand why the metal detector did not go off when the accused passed by, who appeared free.