A 30-year-old violently attacked a health manager with a knife inside the hospital of Melun (Seine-et-Marne), on the evening of Wednesday 30 November. The 51-year-old employee was operated on. Now he is out of the market.
According to the director of the plant, Dominique Peljak, the attack was “brilliant”. This Wednesday evening, around 9 pm, a 30-year-old man broke into the reception room of Melun hospital and verbally assaulted those present. A medical manager of the Southern Ile-de-France Hospital Group (GHSIF), of which Melun hospital is a part, intervenes to calm the situation. The visitor then draws a knife and touches the arm of the 51-year-old employee, he said The Parisian.
A violent altercation ensued. “Our executive’s concern was to put him aside, so he wouldn’t attack other people,” Dominique Peljak commented to our colleagues, condemning a “unspeakable and heinous act”. Seeing the scene, another 34-year-old visitor, who came to see his child hospitalized in pediatrics, tried to help the doctor, who was shot again, this time in the thigh. The two men manage to hold the attacker in a vice in a hospital corridor.
The fire alarm goes off, which allows security to arrive at the scene, then the police, who challenge the attacker. Seriously injured, the medical director, who had one of his femoral arteries severed during the attack, was evacuated to the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital for surgery. If the vital prognosis of him is initially committed, second the parisian, now he would be off the hook. The other two men, more lightly injured, were also operated on Thursday.
An investigation has been opened by the Melun police station. According to the prosecutor, Béatrice Angelleli, the mental state of the attacker would be “very altered”. The latter would have escaped from the Coulommiers hospital before the attack, where he was hospitalized in psychiatry “under duress”. The man was taken there. “He will be subject to a psychiatric report to determine whether or not he is criminally responsible”the prosecutor said.
According to the newspaper, hospital staff – who initially believed in a terrorist attack – were particularly shocked. A psychological unit has been set up. In addition, a Committee on Health, Safety and Working Conditions (CHSCT) took place in the afternoon. Unions have been complaining about a lack of security within the establishment for several years.
[avec Le Parisien]
