France<\/a>.<\/p>\nCurraize and Brunisso said the reasons were varied. In some cases, they said P\u00e9chier intervened to resuscitate patients he had poisoned in order to pose as a hero.<\/p>\n
The court also heard he had acted to damage and discredit co-workers with whom he was in competition or in conflict, targeting their patients in order to make them look incompetent.<\/p>\n
Curraize said P\u00e9chier had a \u201cneed for power\u201d. The court heard he poisoned patients to deal with his own feelings of inadequacy and frustrations. Killing had become \u201ca way of life\u201d, Curraize said.<\/p>\n
Brunisso said P\u00e9chier\u2019s crimes had two aims: \u201cthe physical death of the patient\u201d, but also \u201cthe slow and insidious psychological attack on his colleagues\u201d.<\/p>\n
P\u00e9chier, who has 10 days to appeal, denied any wrongdoing throughout the trial, telling the court: \u201cI have never poisoned anyone \u2026 I am not a poisoner.\u201d He was described by lawyers for the victims as emotionless and lacking empathy in court.<\/p>\n
P\u00e9chier, whose father was also an anaesthetist, was described as having had a privileged upbringing and lived in a large house with his cardiologist wife and three children before he divorced. He had worked at two private clinics where patients went into cardiac arrest in suspicious circumstances between 2008 and 2017. Twelve patients could not be resuscitated and died. Over the course of the inquiry, investigators examined more than 70 reports of \u201cserious adverse events\u201d, medical terminology for unexpected complications or deaths among patients.<\/p>\n
P\u00e9chier\u2019s youngest victim, a four-year-old identified as Tedy, survived two cardiac arrests during a routine tonsil operation in 2016.<\/p>\n
Tedy\u2019s father, Herv\u00e9 Hoerter Tarby, told the court: \u201cWhat happened to us is a nightmare. We trusted medicine and we feel betrayed.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said his son had spent two days in a coma with his mother kneeling by his bed and praying. The family told the court their son was used by P\u00e9chier as an object to \u201csettle scores\u201d between doctors, suggesting P\u00e9chier had poisoned the child to harm his colleagues\u2019 reputations. \u201cIt\u2019s inhuman, it\u2019s vile,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Tedy, now 14, did not want to give evidence or stand in court near P\u00e9chier, but his father read a written statement in which the boy described his \u201cgreat suffering\u201d. Tedy wrote: \u201cI understand that, when I was only four, someone used me and my life to create problems. I need 10 minutes more than my classmates to write. I\u2019m afraid that traces of the poisoning will stay with me all my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sandra Simard was 36 in 2017 when she had a routine back operation. Her heart stopped during the operation, after an anaesthesia pouch was tampered with. She was in a coma for several days and told the court she lived with lifelong consequences. \u201cMy whole body is in pain. It\u2019s as if I live in the body of an old person,\u201d she said, using a walking stick in court. She said the end of the day was always worse and winter caused great suffering. \u201cBut I can\u2019t complain, because at least I\u2019m alive,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Morgane Richard, a lawyer for several victims, told the court that P\u00e9chier used patients as \u201ccannon-fodder, as weapons\u201d to attack and discredit his fellow doctors who were left shocked by their patients\u2019 unexplained adverse events.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one among you can imagine being intentionally killed by a doctor,\u201d she told the jury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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