An armed person was arrested this afternoon at the hospital in Narbonne in the Aude department. The person is said to have approached the reception desk armed with several knives and shouting ‘Allah Akbar’. The man was taken outside by hospital staff. As he had a psychiatric history, he was admitted to a care facility. The incident took place in the early afternoon in Narbonne in the Aude department. A person came to the emergency room of the city’s hospital armed with several knives. The man shouted ‘Allah Akbar’ among other things, as the public prosecutor of Narbonne, Éric Camous, told France 3 Occitanie. According to our information, the person had taken one of the hospital visitors hostage. The health staff were able to get him out and closed the access to the hospital. The first signs indicate that this is a man with serious psychological problems,’ said Camous. He had previously asked his partner to accompany him to the hospital. He was in an even more unstable situation when he arrived at the emergency room, which leads us to believe that he had suffered a psychological decompensation’.
The man was initially taken into police custody and subsequently examined by a psychiatrist, who described his condition as incompatible with police custody. He was admitted to the psychiatric emergency ward.
The man, who is known to the police in particular for psychiatric disorders, is 42 years old and not a Muslim, according to the public prosecutor’s office.
The hospital staff were attended to by the police and are to be examined by a doctor. There were no injuries.
Éric Camous would like to emphasise ‘the very high level of operational readiness of the police’.
Après avoir crié “Allah Akbar” à l’hôpital, un individu armé interpellé à Narbonne (francetvinfo.fr)