The nurse worked at the psychotherapy center of the Nord Deux-Sèvres hospital in Thouars (illustration image). – Camille Allain / 20 Minutes
The patient suspected of having fatally injured Thursday a nurse of the psychotherapy center of the North hospital
Two Sevres de Thouars, was indicted Friday evening for “assassination and attempted assassination”, we learned from the Poitiers prosecution. He was placed in pre-trial detention, said assistant prosecutor François Thévenot.
The 20-year-old is suspected of having stabbed Elodie, a 30-year-old nurse, in the parking lot in front of the hospital’s psychiatric unit. Helicoptered to Poitiers University Hospital, this mother of two died a few hours later. The alleged attacker, who had been hospitalized since January 24 – “on his own volition,” said the prosecution – grabbed a knife from the car. He struck the nurse who came towards him “very quickly.” He also failed to hurt another nurse.
He was then arrested and taken into police custody after being seen by a psychiatrist, the newspaper said New republic. The Niort prosecutor’s office relinquished Friday in favor of the criminal division of the Poitiers court.
“A real drama”
One hundred of the nurse’s colleagues met on Friday to welcome Frank Bellivier, ministerial delegate for mental health and psychiatry. “The teams are devastated, this is not the time for big speeches but meditation,” said Frank Bellivier after more than two hours of meeting. He confirmed the establishment of “a crisis unit on different technical or support aspects” and announced the will to return, “neither too early nor too late” for a new visit.
Alain Fouquet, a psychiatric nurse since 1983 and elected CGT, told the press that the employees were “upset”. “A nurse was killed, it’s a real tragedy, we would have preferred Minister Agnès Buzyn to travel.” The Minister of Health tweeted her “thoughts” to the family and her “support for her colleagues” Thursday evening, announcing the visit of Frank Bellivier. We have been alerting for years about the lack of resources, personnel and training: it cannot last! We have to stop the words and really give the hospital the means to function. Otherwise we just postpone the deadline for the next disaster, “added the shop steward.
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