This is the fourth time that the scenario has repeated itself in the space of ten days in the pink city.
On Friday, a man fled again from the Gérard-Marchant psychiatric hospital in Toulouse, as revealed by La Dépêche du Midi.
According to information from the regional daily, this 43-year-old individual is known for acts of rape and deemed dangerous.
“Since this report, the police have been actively mobilized to quickly find this person”, assures the Regional Health Agency (ARS) in a press release.
The hospital center announced in the process that it had decided to close the patient care pavilions this weekend, "given the risks of new runaways in a context of overmediatization".
Guards and on-call duty are also reinforced.
This new leak comes when Gérard-Marchant is already under the control of an inspection mission and an administrative investigation ordered by the ARS.
The "cannibal of the Pyrenees" assaulted a 72-year-old woman
Last week, in fact, two patients from the Gérard Marchant psychiatric hospital in Toulouse had also run away, before being located a few hours later, and interned again.
These two men, suspected of murder, had been considered criminally irresponsible and could not be tried.
The first, a 34-year-old former soldier nicknamed the "cannibal of the Pyrenees", escaped from Marchant hospital on January 19, before attacking a 72-year-old woman who was walking her dog in a residential area of Toulouse.
He was investigated in 2013 for intentional homicide and acts of cannibalism.
The second, aged 48, involved in a homicide in 2010, fled on Sunday before being arrested by the police.
Thursday, it was another psychiatric patient who was found Thursday shortly after escaping from the Purpan hospital in Toulouse where he was interned, we learned from the prosecution about this third runaway of a dangerous individual in a week in this city.
The 33-year-old man was found by the police a few hours after his escape and brought back to the hospital on Thursday afternoon, according to the same source.
