“I regret what happened and I will never stop taking my medication again.
» Glasses and black hair, Mohamed seems a little lost in front of the bar of this courtroom of the court of appeal.
This young man, aged 25, was imprisoned on Tuesday February 6 by the Paris Chamber of Instruction.
This arsonist was indicted by a Parisian judge at the psychiatric hospital where he was automatically interned before being placed under judicial supervision.
Justice accuses him of having, on the night of October 19 to 20, 2023, set fire to the common areas of his building during an attack of dementia.
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“These are particularly serious facts.
Fortunately, the victims woke up,” specifies the attorney general, who recalls that in 2019 at 17 bis rue Erlanger in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, “a landing fire, lit by a mentally ill person, killed ten people ".
The magistrates of the court believe that any repetition of the facts must be prevented.
“Constrained hospitalization
(Editor's note: in a psychiatric hospital)
is insufficient, because we do not control the conditions of its release,” explains the president.
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