At least two beneficiary attendants of the Cité-de-la-Santé in Laval have reportedly received death threats from Abdulla Shaikh, suspected of being the author of the series of homicides that have occurred in recent days, while he was a psychiatric patient in the hospital.
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“I confirm that we were arrested by at least two employees who were receiving threats from the man at the time he was in hospital,” said Nathalie Bourque, interim president of the Syndicat destravaileuses. and workers from the CISSS de Laval-CSN. The events would have occurred about a year and a half ago.
“I’m going to have your full name, I’m going to find you and I’m going to kill you,” he allegedly told one of the beneficiary attendants. “It was recurring. There were stares. He watched from afar with menacing eyes. He was tenacious in his words, ”says Mme Bourque.
At some point, Mr. Shaikh allegedly put his hand on the attendant’s shoulder and mentioned the woman’s full name. “The employee was scared. The staff contacted the police,” says Mr.me Bourque. Judging that these were veiled threats, the police would not have taken the employee’s complaint. “The employee nevertheless persevered with her manager and management made the decision to change her service,” she said.
Fearing being tracked down by Mr. Shaikh, the employee reportedly changed her name and profile picture on Facebook, says Ms.me Bourque.
In addition, a member of Mr. Shaikh’s family allegedly brought him a knife during his stay in the hospital, since the latter complained of buttering his toast with a plastic knife, says Ms.me Bourque. “The family doesn’t really see the danger. So a chance that there was the principle of the search in psychiatry and that the knife was found, ”she said.
The medical staff of the establishment were “in shock” when they learned that Mr. Shaikh is the suspect of the three murders committed in the last days. “Maybe the next victim would have been someone from the hospital,” says Mr.me Bourque.