An inmate from the Arles central prison took five staff members hostage on Friday.
His police custody was interrupted this Saturday.
The 37-year-old man will be hospitalized in a psychiatric unit.
The custody of the inmate who took four medical staff and a prison guard hostage for five hours on Friday at Arles prison (Bouches-du-Rhône) was interrupted this Saturday, after a psychiatric expert concluded that the necessity of his hospitalization in a psychiatric unit, according to a press release from the Tarascon prosecutor, Laurent Gumbau.
“A decompensation of personality disorders”
The psychiatric expert concluded “to a decompensation of personality disorders having the effect of making him dangerous for himself or for others” and recommended “constrained hospitalization in a specialized environment”indicated the public prosecutor of Tarascon.
The detainee, a 37-year-old Guyana national, had kidnapped, under threat of a homemade weapon made with metal spikes, three nurses, a doctor and a prison guard in the care unit of the central prison. ‘Arles. He then surrendered without causing any injuries. The man seemed to have “mobile” to change establishment, but “there was no specific, written request, as prisoners can make to the prison administration”the Tarascon prosecutor emphasized on Friday.
The inmate will soon be interviewed again
The custody of this inmate, who was serving an 18-year prison sentence at Arles central prison for rape at gunpoint, was lifted at 6:30 p.m., the magistrate said, “and complete admission without consent implemented (…) at the specialized hospital center of Montfavet” (Vaucluse). “He could ultimately be taken care of at the beginning of next week within the specially designed hospital unit (UHSA) in Marseille”he added.
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As soon as his health status “will be sufficiently stabilized, he will be interviewed again as part of a resumption of the police custody measure”specified Laurent Gumbau. Several sources highlighted on Friday the psychiatric disorders of the detainee, described as “unstable”without any pathology being formally established. The police prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône, Pierre-Edouard Colliex, had described this man, known “for acts of violence, particularly in detention”of “very dangerous”welcoming a way out “without use of force”at the end of a “fairly long and quite complicated negotiation”.
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