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MONTREAL — A Montreal man charged with the attempted murder of a Catholic priest last week was ordered Monday to undergo an evaluation at a psychiatric hospital.

The Crown and defence agreed that Vlad Cristian Eremia should go to Montreal’s Pinel Institute to assess his level of criminal responsibility.

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Eremia, 26, met with a criminologist at the Montreal courthouse, who made the recommendation just four days after Rev. Claude Grou suffered minor injuries in a knife attack at Montreal’s St. Joseph’s Oratory during morning mass.

Quebec court Judge Pierre Labelle ordered Eremia to remain at the hospital for 30 days, returning to court on April 26.

“There were some facts and information collected by the criminologist this morning that an evaluation for his criminal responsibility would be important in the present file,” prosecutor Simon Boulianne said following the brief hearing. “We’ll wait for the report regarding that evaluation.”