A tragedy narrowly avoided.
On Wednesday, the man nicknamed the "
cannibal of the Pyrenees
" escaped from his psychiatric hospital in Toulouse, attacked a retiree before being arrested by the police.
Nine years earlier, Jérémy Rimbaud had already attacked an elderly person: he had killed a 90-year-old man, before disemboweling him to eat his heart.
The defendant, now 34 years old, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.
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“
How to explain such a thing?
“, wondered in 2013 the father of Jérémy Rimbaud with our colleagues from
La Dépêche.
A few days earlier, his son, then 26 years old, had entered the home of a 90-year-old man in the village of Nouilhan (Hautes-Pyrénées), smashing his skull with a metal tool stolen from a barn.
According to his own statements, he had then improvised a pyre on the ground, extracted with a knife the heart and the tongue of his victim to eat them with Tarbais beans, such…
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