Gabriel Fortin, an unemployed engineer who killed two of his former HRDs and a Pôle Emploi adviser last week, was transferred on Wednesday February 3 to the Vinatier psychiatric hospital in Bron, near Lyon, according to the Valence prosecutor.
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The 45-year-old man was hospitalized automatically to this specialized unit in Lyon by prefectural decision, said the prefecture of Drôme, confirming information from
Dauphiné Libéré
.
The prison in which he was detained approached the prefecture in view of "
elements which suggested that he could be a danger to himself
", added the same source.
Valence prosecutor Alex Perrin added that Gabriel Fortin, who had remained silent during his police custody, had not been heard again by the examining magistrate since his indictment on Saturday for "
assassinations
".
On January 28, this single man, without children, was arrested in Valence after having shot and killed a Pôle Emploi adviser in the center of Valence and the director of human resources of the Faun company, in Guilherand-Granges (Ardèche), where he had worked between 2008 and 2010. A link could be established with the murder two days earlier of another HRD, shot dead in the parking lot of his company in Wolfgantzen (Haut-Rhin), as well as with the assault on 'a human resources manager at his home in Wattwiller.