The war veteran who became the ‘Cannibal of the Pyrenees’

  • Jérémy Rimbaud, who killed a man and ate some of his organs, attacked a 73-year-old woman in Toulouse again

In the village of Nouilhan, a handful of houses of wheat and maize farmers in the Hautes-Pyrénées region of France, there was no more talk of Jeremy Rimbaud. That his name was no longer spoken was all he could hope for. To forget it was too much to ask. “How are we going to forget about him? & rdquor ;, a neighbor who spent the afternoon in her garden and who felt bad about the return of journalists to her municipality asked herself this Tuesday. “We all knew Léopold Pedèbidau. Rimbaud went into his house but he could have gone into someone else’s, he passed where my family lives. This is something very traumatic & rdquor ;, another woman, working in the town hall of the population. So to continue as before, without bumping Rimbaud when flipping the local newspapers, was a small achievement. But last week, Rimbaud was back in the news. And their nicknames, the ‘Cannibal of the Pyrenees‘or the’ Cannibal de Nouilhan ‘, returned to the front pages.

Rimbaud escaped from hospital Marchant of Toulouse on wednesday January 19 and walked several streets and mingled with the rest of the citizens. Up to the Libra Street, a walk from townhouses located right in the middle of the city, A 73-year-old woman attacked He had just left his house to go for a walk with his dog. He again used a bar to beat his victim, who, like the previous ones, believed he was going to kill her, according to what he told the newspaper.The Midi Dispatch. This was prevented by the archangel’s intervention of some neighbors, which contained Rimbaud. The elderly woman sustained serious injuries to her head and arms but will recover.

Five days later, on the asphalt of Rue de la Balance, the bloodstain caused by Rimbaud’s attack is still clearly visible. Those who walk along that route do not look at it, but they also do not ignore the event. On the contrary: “there has been a lot of talk about the attack & rdquor ;, admits one of them, riding a scooter. After the outbreak of violence, Rimbaud was handed over to the health authorities. The same people who mistakenly thought that ‘the cannibal of the Pyrenees’ was no longer a threat to anyone and that he should no longer be under surveillance. “Now it will be investigated whether the medication failed, but since it is protected information, we do not know what treatment he followed,” he explained. Fred Abela, one of the journalists who followed the controversy. His newspaper was one of those that brought Rimbaud back to the front page by confirming that the individual who attacked the old woman was the same one who spread atrocities in Nouilhan in 2013.

The story of the cannibal

Rimbaud was born in 1987 in the city of Tarbes, one of the most important cities in this area of ​​southern France. He signed up for the French army when I was only in my twenties. In 2011 he participated as a corporal in a mission in Afghanistan which lasted six months. He was the driver of an armored car. Apparently, Rimbaud returned from that experience on Taliban soil traumatized and abused by the consumption of ketamine Y weed. By the end of 2013, when he had already left the military, his mental health problems worsened. His friend, in a statement collected by the media Southwest, explained that two days before the Nouilhan events, he noticed that Rimbaud’s personality had suddenly changed: “He was very ill, he was a different person. I wanted to convince myself that December 1st is the end of the world. He was obsessed & rdquor ;.

The Afghanistan veteran wandered around Tarbes for several days, without eating or resting. On November 14, he arrived at the town of Nouilhan. Prey for his delirium, he sneaked into the home of a 90-year-old farmer, Léopold Pédèbidau, whom he saw from the street and would have confused for a Taliban soldier. He attacked him with an iron bar. When Leopold was still alive, his tongue and part of his heart ripped out. After, cooked the pieces of meat and he ate them accompanied by green beans. Late in the afternoon he left Léopold’s house and crossed the main road bordering the town to hide near a grain silo. There he surprised his second victim, Jean Camy, another farmer like Léopold, who rode on his tractor after emptying his trailer of maize. Camy tells EL PERIÓDICO how it happened.

“I’m going to kill you”

When Camy grabs the wheel and starts driving away, Rimbaud climbs into the cockpit and places the metal bar – the same one he used to kill Léopold – inches from her face. A struggle ensued and they both fell to the ground. Camy assures that Rimbaud did not stop shouting during the fight, “I’m not going to kill you.” “In the end, it hit me in the back. The doctors said it could have left me paralyzed, or killed me,” he says. Rimbaud, who was then 26 years old, saw that he could not break for Camy with that bar and left to find a more powerful weapon. In a house he found a shotgun and five hunting cartridges, they captured and returned to kill him. Fortunately, Camy’s screams at that point called for help from several neighbors. When Rimbaud reappeared, he was arrested by firefighters.

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Camy condemns that after the assault that the old woman from Toulouse suffered, he feels unprotected by justice. “In 2016 they said that Rimbaud was not criminally responsible for those events, but they promised that he would be watched because he very dangerous and that they would inform me if they had transferred him. They did not comply. ” Camy has a 40% disability and had to work as a mechanic, which he combined with the field, due to the brutal blow Rimbaud inflicted on him in the back. He still has the iron bar and displays it during the interview. He understands that the people of Nouilhan want to turn the page and that they long for the days when no one talked about Jérémy Rimbaud. But it helps him tell the press what happened. This allows him to raise the question of whether the French army was ready to treat their soldier “like a dog” which they got rid of despite knowing he needed medical help.

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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