French cannibal escapes and attacks woman on the street again | Abroad

Jérémy Rimaud has been in a closed psychiatric institution since 2011. The man is a veteran and had returned from Afghanistan that year. Two weeks after returning to France, he murdered a 90-year-old farmer and dismembered the man’s body. According to the criminal file, he would have cut the victim’s tongue free and also had a piece of the heart removed. He would then have wanted to cook it with white beans.

Rimaud told police that he heard voices telling him to kill the old man.

A little later, he was caught trying to kill a second farmer with an iron bar. He was then arrested in time. Rimaud was given a life sentence for murder and was nicknamed ‘the cannibal of the Pyrenees’. He was later diagnosed with schizophrenia and found to have post-traumatic stress disorder from his time in Afghanistan.

Escape

So the man had been in the closed institution for years, but escaped on Wednesday. During that escape, he attacked a woman in the street. She was walking her dog near the center of Toulouse when Rimaud hit her on the back of the head. Then he also used a stick to hit her again. Passers-by came to the woman’s aid, causing Rimaud to run.

The man was again arrested and returned to the institution. An investigation is currently underway to determine how the man escaped.

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