A person ‘from outside the facility’ carrying a knife broke into a pavilion of the psychiatric hospital in Libourne on Sunday evening, threatening staff with death and causing panic among patients.
‘A man smashed a window of the hospital and forced his way into a pavilion of the psychiatric ward’. The staff present described a man who repeatedly shouted ‘Allahu akbar’ and carried a knife. He threatened those present with death, searched for a doctor at the hospital and finally left the premises”.
The Force Ouvrière union of the Libourne hospital posted on social media that the man ‘tried to enter several pavilions from outside the facility before entering one of them and causing panic among the patients’. He emphasises that ‘the staff present reacted perfectly and kept the patients and themselves safe.’