{"id":30165,"date":"2025-12-18T04:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=30165"},"modified":"2025-12-18T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T10:30:26","slug":"french-doctor-death-who-poisoned-patients-jailed-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/12\/18\/french-doctor-death-who-poisoned-patients-jailed-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"French ‘Doctor Death’ who poisoned patients jailed for life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A former anaesthetist has been jailed for life for intentionally poisoning 30 patients, including 12 who died.<\/b><\/p>\n

A court in the city of Besan\u00e7on in eastern France found Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric P\u00e9chier guilty of contaminating infusion bags with substances that caused cardiac arrest or haemorrhaging.<\/p>\n

His youngest victim, a four-year-old child, survived two cardiac arrests during a routine tonsil surgery in 2016. The oldest victim was 89.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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P\u00e9chier was first placed under investigation eight years ago, when he was suspected of poisoning patients at two clinics in Besan\u00e7on between 2008 and 2017.<\/p>\n

His first known victim, Sandra Simard, was 36 when she experienced a sudden cardiac arrest in the middle of spine surgery. She survived thanks to intervention by P\u00e9chier, although she went into a coma.<\/p>\n

Tests on her infusion bags showed concentrations of potassium 100 times the expected dose and the alarm was sounded with local prosecutors.<\/p>\n

During the 15 weeks of the trial, P\u00e9chier sometimes acknowledged that some of the patients who fell ill or died may have been poisoned but he denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

“I have said it before and I’ll say it again: I am not a poisoner… I have always upheld the Hippocratic oath,” he stated.<\/p>\n

P\u00e9chier will now spend a minimum of 22 years behind bars, having been at liberty throughout the trial.<\/p>\n

He has 10 days to lodge an appeal, which would entail a second trial within a year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A former anaesthetist has been jailed for life for intentionally poisoning 30 patients, including 12 who died. A court in the city of Besan\u00e7on in eastern France found Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric P\u00e9chier guilty of contaminating infusion bags […]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[11928,2913],"class_list":{"0":"post-30165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world","9":"tag-besancon","10":"tag-france","11":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30170,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30165\/revisions\/30170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}