{"id":198055,"date":"2025-12-18T09:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/198055\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:32:07","slug":"french-anaesthetist-who-poisoned-12-patients-to-death-jailed-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/198055\/","title":{"rendered":"French anaesthetist who poisoned 12 patients to death jailed for life"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\">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\">&#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<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">P\u00e9chier, who has always denied any wrongdoing, now has 10 days to lodge an appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former anaesthetist has been jailed for life for intentionally poisoning 30 patients, including 12 who died. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-198055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}