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Man stabs medical team

Psychologist, nurse injured, attacker detained

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - Turin, October 7 - A man barricaded himself up inside his Turin home on Wednesday after stabbing members of a medical team who had arrived in view of possibly putting him under a forced treatment regime (TSO). A psychiatrist and a nurse were taken to the city's Molinette hospital to have their injuries treated. The man was subsequently detained, after police negotiators convinced him to open his front door, and he is being held at Turin's Martini hospital. The team were attacked as they were deciding what sort of intervention to carry out, sources said. The alarm was raised by a second nurse who did not get stabbed.
    The injured nurse, a man, was stabbed twice in the chest and may need surgery as a lung and the pericardium covering his heart were perforated.
    The psychiatrist, a woman, suffered superficial injuries to an arm and her head. The incident comes just months after the case of Andrea Soldi, a 45-year-old schizophrenia sufferer who choked to death while being taken in for forced treatment in Turin.
    Three municipal police officers are among several people under investigation in relation to that death.
   

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