A nurse has died as a result of a knife attack at the university hospital in the French city of Reims, where a secretary from the center was also seriously injured.

The French Minister of Health, François Braun, has announced on his Twitter account the death of the nurse, aged 38and has offered his condolences to his relatives and to the hospital team that he visited yesterday, a few hours after the attack had been committed.

“It is one of the greatest dramas that can affect our nation,” said the government spokesman and former Health Minister, Olivier Véran, who explained that the attack took place in a locker room and that the attacker “apparently he is an unbalanced patient.”

The suspect, who is 59 years old and was quickly apprehended, He had a knife in his pants pocket. He did not have any medical appointment nor was he being treated at the place where the events occurred.

The Reims prosecutor has indicated in a statement that he had initially opened an investigation for attempted murder, before the nurse died.

Braun has promised to bring together by the end of this week all parties involved in the safety of the toiletsan issue that has come back to the forefront of today with this event and on which professionals have denounced the worsening of the situation.

Last year, 37% of the toilets in France they said they had suffered some kind of violence. In 90% of the cases, the aggressors were patients or companions.