The “vampire” of Nanterre is in nature.
Thursday, May 6, Jean-Pierre R. escaped from the psychiatric unit in which he had been locked up for almost seventeen years.
Since then, his report has been disseminated to all police services in the country, even if it is the Nanterre police station which remains seized of the investigation into this "fugue" described as "disturbing disappearance".
Research is not easy to direct.
"He has no base, no family or friends in France," says a police officer from Hauts-de-Seine, where the crime has never been forgotten.
The police are looking for Jean-Pierre R., nicknamed the vampire of Nanterre, escaped from the psychiatric hospital where he was interned.
This fairly recent photo was taken during a framed outing.
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On the night of October 3, 2004, Rémy M., a young man of 20, joined the Nanterre-Université RER station to go party in a nightclub.
But he meets Jean-Pierre R. sitting on a bench.
At the time, this 23-year-old young man, fresh from Canada, lived alone in a small apartment in the city of the Provinces-Françaises.
He would have planned to enroll at the nearby university of Nanterre but spent most of his days cloistered in his small accommodation.
When his neighbors sometimes passed the man they nicknamed the American, he didn't answer a word.
That night in October 2004, between the city of the Provinces-Françaises and the train station, Jean-Pierre R. is sitting on his bench when Rémy arrives.
He pounces on the young man and slaughters him with a knife.
The weapon will be planted in the throat of the victim, in his mouth, at the back of the skull.
A horror scene attended by two witnesses who claimed to have seen the murderer bending over the victim's body to drink his blood.
Five expertises had concluded in a case of mental illness
Three years later, before the judges responsible for ruling on his criminal irresponsibility, Jean-Pierre R. had said that he was looking for a place to bury his cat when he met Rémy.
“He had blood on his hands, he screamed.
I fell and he hit me ”, according to the incredible story of the“ vampire ”.
Arrested on the night of the crime, he had obviously been placed in pre-trial detention. A first psychiatric expertise had concluded that his discernment had been impaired, the personality of Jean-Pierre R. exhibiting "schizophrenic tendencies". Other expertises, five in all, then concluded with the abolition of the discernment of the murderer, who in fact suffers from a real schizophrenia. Therefore, in 2007, the investigating judge issued a dismissal order, which the victim's family appealed. This is how Jean-Pierre R. appeared before the investigation chamber, in the presence of relatives of the one whose life he had taken. At first unable to admit that the murderer would never be tried because of his "madness", relatives had understood during this hearing,confident that the most important thing was to know Remy's killer "locked up all his life" ...
He would have disappeared at the time of "taking medication"
As soon as the dismissal order was issued because of his penal irresponsibility, Jean-Pierre R. was subject to compulsory internment ordered by the prefect.
He was immediately interned at the Max-Fourestier hospital in Nanterre, less than three kilometers from the scene of the crime.
And that's where he was again last week.
Every six months, as required by law, the liberty and detention judge examined his case by examining the medical certificates that the psychiatric unit of the hospital must provide him every month.
The judge has never ruled on the release of the hospitalization.
Jean-Pierre R. has obviously decided to apply it on his own.
This Thursday evening, he would have "run away" at the time of "taking medication" according to what is written on the reporting form of the care establishment. The document specifies the risk of aggressive behavior by Jean-Pierre R. towards himself or against others. Curiously, the Nanterre police station was not alerted to the disappearance until Saturday, assures a person close to the investigation. This Monday, the police had not found trace of this man whom the hospital described as thin, wearing black pants, a sports jacket of the same color and shoes of sneakers when he escaped the caregivers. Investigators are puzzled. They are looking all over the place without having a serious lead. "Where can he go? The world has changed since 2004, this man has no benchmark in the world of 2021, ”notes someone close to the case.Even the city of the Provinces-Françaises, where he lived, has completely changed.
