The man, interned after a dismissal in a rape case, has been wanted by the police since Friday afternoon, after his escape from the psychiatric hospital. The ARS promises to better secure the hospital to “avoid any further escape”.
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New escape from a psychiatric hospital in Toulouse. A patient escaped from the Gérard-Marchant psychiatric hospital reports this Saturday, January 29, France Bleu Occitanie. The man has been wanted by the police since Friday afternoon, January 28. This is the fourth runaway of a patient from a psychiatric unit in ten days in Toulouse.
“Since this report, the police have been actively mobilized to quickly find this person”, specifies the ARS Occitanie in a press release. From a judicial source at France Télévisions, this man is 43 years old and was indicted for raping his partner in 2011. A dismissal was then pronounced in 2013 as well as his placement in a psychiatric hospital. This man is not known for other facts according to this source, which specifies that the procedure to find him is not a judicial investigation, but a report for worrying disappearance. This allows the police to search for him.
The Regional Health Agency also announces that it has put in place additional security measures in the Gérard Marchant Hospital Center and the Toulouse University Hospital as of Friday morning. “to avoid any new patient running away”. She mentions in particular the “Securing entrances and exits”, the “reinforcement of patient monitoring” or even the “reinforcement of guards and on-call duty” and promise “a review of risk assessments”.