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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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.
A French anaesthetist was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for poisoning 30 patients during hospital operations, 12 of whom died. At the end of a 15-week trial with huge media attention, the president of the jury in the Doubs department near the Swiss border ordered the doctor's immediate imprisonment. Frédéric Péchier, 53, whose lawyers have indicated they will appeal the verdict, has never been in custody since the investigation began i…
After three and a half months of trial, the anesthesiologist Frédéric Péchier was sentenced this Thursday to life imprisonment for 30 poisonings, including 12 mortals. A team of TF1 collected the reactions of the victims' relatives. - "Sickness of emotions": the reactions of the victims' relatives to the verdict of the Frédéric Péchier case (Police, justice and other facts).
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