"A French court on Thursday sentenced a doctor to life in jail for poisoning 30 child and adult patients, 12 of whom died, in an alleged attempt to discredit co-workers. Frédéric Péchier, 53, worked as an anaesthetist in two clinics in the eastern city of Besançon, when patients went into cardiac arrest in suspicious circumstances between 2008 and 2017. Twelve could not be resuscitated. Péchier's youngest alleged victim, four-year-old Teddy, survived two cardiac arrests during a routine tonsil surgery in 2016."
"Twelve could not be resuscitated. Péchier's youngest alleged victim, four-year-old Teddy, survived two cardiac arrests during a routine tonsil surgery in 2016. "You will be incarcerated immediately," presiding judge Delphine Thibierge said. Péchier, who has denied wrongdoing and not been detained since the start of the probe, appeared unmoved. The doctor's oldest alleged victim was 89. An investigation was launched in 2017, after suspicious cardiac arrests during operations on patients otherwise considered low-risk. More to follow"
Frédéric Péchier, a 53-year-old anaesthetist, was sentenced to life in jail for poisoning 30 child and adult patients, with 12 fatalities. He worked at two clinics in Besançon where patients suffered suspicious cardiac arrests during operations between 2008 and 2017; twelve could not be resuscitated. The youngest alleged victim was four-year-old Teddy, who survived two cardiac arrests during a tonsil operation in 2016; the oldest alleged victim was 89. An investigation opened in 2017 after cardiac arrests occurred in otherwise low-risk patients. Péchier has denied wrongdoing and had not been detained since the investigation began.
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