Husband describes horror his wife endured in deadly knife attack in Vaudreuil, Que.

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Mohammad Imtiaz says he watched as his wife was savagely attacked by a neighbour.While she survived, Imtiaz says she’s deeply traumatized.“We brought her home but she’s scared to come here in her apartment,” Imtiaz said.It all happened last week in a condo tower in Vaudreuil-Dorion.The suspect is accused of killing his 68-year-old mother and a 53-year-old neighbour.“Then, when he saw my wife coming out from my apartment, he rushed toward her and then he hit something very hard, hammered her in the head, then she fell on the ground. Then he went again in the apartment and brought some big knives and some other dangerous things that he pushed in her nose and eyes and everything, and then he tried to cut her throat,” Imtiaz said.

“A lot of blood was on the floor and on the wall.”Imtiaz says a neighbour called 911. Shortly after, Fabio Puglisi was arrested.He appeared in court on Thursday, where he was deemed unfit to stand trial.

He was ordered to take forced treatment for 30 days before his next court appearance.Court documents show Puglisi has a long history of mental illness. He has twice been found not criminally responsible for offences committed in 2012 and 2020.“Why is a person like that free in the public?” Vaudreuil Mayor Guy Pilon said.Currently, those with mental health issues can refuse treatment.If they are not deemed an immediate danger to themselves or others, they are let go, often without any followup.Pilon has written to Lionel Carmant, the minister responsible for health and social services, asking him to review that aspect of the law, known as P.38.In the letter, the mayor wonders if the incident could’ve been avoided, adding he hopes that the revision of the law is done as soon as possible.“We are