US EditionFrench anaesthetist who poisoned 12 patients to death jailed for life
Frédéric Péchier poisoned 30 patients, killing 12, to undermine colleagues and display resuscitation skills, prosecutors said; trial lasted nearly four months.
- A court in Besançon found Frédéric Péchier guilty and jailed him for life for intentionally poisoning 30 patients, including 12 who died.
- Péchier was first placed under investigation eight years ago for suspected poisonings at two clinics in Besançon between 2008 and 2017.
- Prosecutors condemned Péchier in court with a stark rebuke, saying he contaminated infusion bags with substances causing cardiac arrest or hemorrhaging.
- The ruling leaves open the possibility of an appeal within 10 days, and Péchier faces a minimum of 22 years behind bars in addition to the life sentence.
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They took place side by side, in the crowded hall of the former parliament of Franche-Comté which welcomed, for fifteen weeks, the court of the Doubs for the trial of Frédéric Péchier. Under the monumental frescoes and the gildings, the air is irrespirable, charged with this tension proper to waiting for a verdict. Amandine Iehlen shows a face gnawed by stress, Sandra Simard an unusual paleness. Founders of the association of the victims, the tw…
Frédéric Péchier, according to the sentence, poisoned the patients and then saved them and left rival doctors in a bad place.
The longest trial ever known with a popular jury ended with the unsurprising conviction of Frédéric Péchier, a former anesthesiologist in Besançon, for the poisoning of 30 patients, including 12 mortals.
The French court in Besanson sentenced former anesthesiologist Frederick Péte, who was found guilty of murdering 12 patients and poisoning 30 others, to life imprisonment, reports France 24.
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