A court in the city of Besançon in eastern France found Frédéric Péchier guilty of contaminating infusion bags with substances that caused cardiac arrest or haemorrhaging.
His youngest victim, a four-year-old child, survived two cardiac arrests during a routine tonsil surgery in 2016. The oldest victim was 89.
“You are Doctor Death, a poisoner, a murderer. You bring shame on all doctors,” said prosecutors last week. “You have turned this clinic into a graveyard.”
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Prosecutors argue that he tampered with intravenous medicines to induce cardiac arrests, as a means of getting revenge against colleagues. They say he was the “common denominator” in all the poisoning cases.
The trial is set to continue until December and the defendant will remain at liberty, under judicial supervision. If found guilty he would face life imprisonment.
Investigation into French doctor for allegedly poisoning patients
