A 30-year-old man was presented for immediate appearance before the Chambéry criminal court (Savoie) on Thursday.
He was originally due to be tried on May 23, 2022 but had requested a delay for his defense and a psychiatric expertise, reports Le Dauphiné Libéré.
The defendant, of no fixed address, had presented himself drunk at the emergency room of Chambéry on May 21.
He had fallen asleep and a nurse had tried to wake him up using a medical stimulation technique.
The patient then blocked his neck with his arm and three people had to intervene.
The man then fled.
"I just held her because she jostled me," said the defendant.
An abolition of discernment
According to the psychiatric expertise, he suffers from a chronic psychotic pathology and deficiencies in childhood.
The expert concluded that there was significant psychiatric danger abolishing his discernment.
Criminal irresponsibility was therefore recognized.
However, the defendant will have to submit to psychiatric treatment.
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