A former intern, who would have acted “to take revenge on Gustave-Roussy”, admitted the facts: the poisoning of researchers.
A 24-year-old young man, suspected of attempted poisoning on three researchers from the Gustave-Roussy Institute (IGR) in Villejuif (Val de Marne) on March 31, was arrested on Wednesday April 23. He was indicted on Friday.
The suspect, arrested at his parents’ home in Versailles (Yvelines), admitted the facts, according to the information of Parisian which specifies that he is indicted for “poisoning with premeditation”, “attempt to destroy property using explosive substances” and “destruction of public utility property”.
Three IGR researchers had been seized with nausea and vomiting on March 31 after consuming a coffee whose water had been heated with a kettle in their break room. On the same day, employees of the same unit discovered that the refrigerator door in their rest room had been forced open and that several culture tubes from the laboratories had been moved behind furniture in the pavilion.
An investigation will later show that sodium azide, a product used in laboratories to preserve biological samples, had been placed in the kettle, causing the poisoning.
The 24-year-old had been a trainee in the hospital, which is the leading center in Europe for the fight against cancer, until the summer of 2013. He allegedly claimed that his traineeship had ended badly and that he would have acted “to take revenge on Gustave-Roussy”, who would have “published his works without asking him”.
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