French Police Beat Man Senseless and Bloody, Allegedly Escaped From Mental Hospital

From La Dépêche- The story began a few hours earlier when the police were called in to help the CHU Purpan, where a patient escaped from the psychiatric ward. The first information provided to the police presented this individual as being psychologically unstable. He may also be in possession of a grenade and a handgun.

Upon arriving at the hospital, the officials did not find the fugitive. He was spotted several minutes later near rue Romilly. "Our colleagues wanted to control him by being very careful, given the information we had and his build, but he refused. We had doubts that he was carrying a gun and we knew he was very violent. He hit one of the officers with a stick, on the level of the face. The police tried to control him with the help of the dogs, but he did not weaken, he hit the animal, "explains David Leyraud, secretary regional assistant of Occitania of the union Alliance National Police.

That's when the scene summarized by the video begins. One official drops him to the ground, two others hold him down. Then another hit him with a muzzle at the level of the skull, until he was overpowered.

"He was very violent with our men a few minutes before the footage was filmed. We did not know if he was carrying a weapon, however, we were informed of his dangerousness. It was very difficult to make him put the hands in the back. The blows were struck to force him to put his hands in the back so that we can handcuff him, "says Nelson Bouard, the Departmental Director of Public Security ( DDSP ) in Haute-Garonne .