Le Figaro Marseille
Original and dangerous claims.
A nurse working in a private clinic in Aix-en-Provence was arrested and placed in police custody this Monday, suspected of having caused several fires to break out in the corridors of her own hospital, Le
Figaro
learned from police sources. concordant.
The events occurred during the night from Sunday to Monday in the emergency department of the clinic.
Two consecutive fire outbreaks broke out shortly before midnight and were immediately reported to the firefighters.
Firefighters were able to evacuate all hospitalized patients as well as emergency personnel and no one was injured during the intervention.
Once the flames were under control, firefighters discovered that the fire was coming from two hospital trash cans, supporting the theory of arson.
The nurse tried to call her management
Warned, the police were quick to use the images from the clinic's surveillance cameras.
These led to the identification of the person at the origin of these fires: a young 22-year-old nurse working in the emergency department of the hospital.
Arrested and placed in police custody, the young woman initially denied being at the origin of these fires.
Confronted with evidence captured by video surveillance cameras, she finally admitted to being the author of the trash fires.
According to a police source, the nurse justified herself by explaining that she had tried to question her management about the lack of security agents in the night emergency corridors.
According to the young woman, the recruitment of these agents has become more than urgent in her department, with patients' families sometimes attacking caregivers in the hospital corridors.
An investigation was opened for
“deliberate destruction of property by fire”
and entrusted to the local police forces.