the suspect has been charged

The man suspected of having stabbed a nurse and injured a medical secretary at the Reims hospital on Monday was indicted, the Reims prosecutor said on Wednesday. The individual was “ indicted for murder and attempted murder and placed in pre-trial detention, in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution “said prosecutor Matthieu Bourrette.

This 59-year-old Rémois would suffer “schizophrenia and paranoia”, according to the magistrate. Interned in the psychiatric department of the Reims University Hospital, he admitted the facts during his police custody, admitting to having given “several stab wounds” to the victims ” because of their quality and in ” want to psychiatry ». The madman would have “thought about his package for several months”before buying the day of his crime a kitchen knife with a blade of 20 centimeters.

The suspect already indicted in 2017

During his arrest, he told the police that at “every time he would come across a white coat, he would plant it because he wanted revenge”claiming to have been “mistreated for several years by the psychiatric community”, continued the prosecutor. The suspect had previously been indicted in 2017 for some “aggravated violence”also committed ” with a knife ” out of four people from a work assistance establishment (ESAT) where he worked, after having stopped his treatment, underlined Matthieu Bourrette. He was then placed under “reinforced curatorship » and subjected to drug treatment.

A hearing is scheduled for Friday to rule on a possible “abolition of his discernment” during the 2017 attack. Measures of up to “compulsory hospitalization” can be pronounced in this context. But for the murder of the Reims nurse, the prosecutor warns that the suspect faces criminal imprisonment ” for life “.