A 24-year-old man was sentenced to six months in prison this Monday afternoon. He attacked nursing staff at Orthez hospital on October 31 around 5 a.m. This man was injured but during treatment, the situation degenerated. He insulted, threatened, pushed caregivers. Police later discovered that the suspect had drunk alcohol and consumed cannabis and cocaine. Before the judges, the defendant repeated that he did not remember anything. The Pau court also ordered him banned from French territory for five years.
Convicted of sexual exhibition, insult and threat of death
On the stand, the defendant admitted that he had drunk too much alcohol. He explained that he was “calm“, as usual. On October 31, the police were alerted because this patient was becoming unmanageable in the emergency room. It took five gendarmes to control him. On the spot, he pushed a doctor. He insulted and threatened to kill a nurse who was struggling to put a bandage on him. His hand was bleeding profusely but he removed the bandage each time. The situation got so bad that the man ended up showing his penis in the corridors of the hospital. Orthez hospital.
His lawyer, Me Mathieu Appaule, recalled that his client had been attacked, injured in the hand and that his condition was linked to the cocktail of psychotropic drugs ingested. “But the staff were terrified underlined the prosecutor. There was blood everywhere. It was the apocalypse at that time. Doctors had to stop treatment for other patients in the emergency room.” Furthermore, the prosecution also regretted “artistic blur” on the situation of the accused, his identity, his nationality, given the divergence of his declarations to the police.
