{"id":4768,"date":"2025-12-18T09:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:49:08","slug":"french-doctor-death-who-poisoned-patients-jailed-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4768","title":{"rendered":"French &#8216;Doctor Death&#8217; who poisoned patients jailed for life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A former anaesthetist has been jailed for life for intentionally poisoning 30 patients, including 12 who died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">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 hemorrhaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">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<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;You are Doctor Death, a poisoner, a murderer. You bring shame on all doctors,&#8221; said prosecutors last week. &#8220;You have turned this clinic into a graveyard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">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<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">P\u00e9chier, who spent the 15 weeks of the trial at liberty under judicial supervision,  will spend a minimum of 22 years behind bars. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He has always denied any wrongdoing. &#8220;I have said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again: I am not a poisoner&#8230; I have always upheld the Hippocratic oath,&#8221; he stated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">P\u00e9chier now has 10 days to lodge an appeal, which would entail a second trial within a year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#French #Doctor #Death #poisoned #patients #jailed #life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former anaesthetist has been&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}