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Murders, rapes, assaults: why are some suspects "interned in psychiatry"?

2022-05-02T10:24:55.533Z


INVESTIGATION - Implicated in criminal cases, or of a less serious nature, individuals are sometimes placed in a psychiatric hospital. A choice that often arouses the disbelief, if not the anger, of the general public.


The suspect was committed to psychiatry

”.

This sentence, which can be read in many news items, often arouses the reader's disbelief, if not anger.

In Nice, on April 24, 2022, a 31-year-old man suspected of having injured a priest and a nun with a knife was placed in a psychiatric hospital at the end of his police custody.

Two months earlier, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines), a 22-year-old young woman was raped in the early morning in the middle of the street after being followed on the RER A train. There too, the alleged perpetrator was sent to psychiatric hospital after his custody.

Another example last February in Arpajon (Essonne): a 26-year-old man was hospitalized after having stabbed an individual in the heart.

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“In the field, the colleagues note that there are more and more people suffering from severe psychiatric disorders: schizophrenic bipolar, paranoid, individuals who consume narcotics and develop pathologies.

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Source: lefigaro

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