17 French victims of the “dentist butcher”, this Dutch practitioner convicted of having mutilated them, will receive compensation between 5,000 and 40,000 €, according to their lawyer.
Eight years in prison for mutilating a hundred people. The conviction of the “dentist butcher” of Château-Chinon, Jacobus Marinus Van Nierop, had been pronounced at the end of April 2016 by the criminal court of Nevers (Nièvre).
Prosecuted for “swindles”, “forgery and use of forgery” and “voluntary violence resulting in mutilation or permanent disability”, the description of his practices shook the spine. Dozens of healthy teeth pulled out, infections and abscesses caused, tools broken in the gums and left as they are, broken jaws, or even gums sewn to the cheek …
So much suffering which had no single answer: Mr. Van Nierop declared himself insolvent. Nicole Martin, president of the “dental collective”, which brings together a majority of the victims of the dentist, was therefore afraid that the victims “do not touch anything” and that “everything is forgotten” after the trial. Fears dispelled this Thursday by the Compensation Commission for Victims of Offenses (Civi).
17 French victims compensated
“The victims can be reassured, the Civi recognizes them as victims and some are waiting for this compensation to continue their care because they are still at the dentist”, commented Ms. Martin to Agence France Presse (AFP), while stressing that The primary “objective” of his fight was for Mark Van Nierop to “stop exercising”. His sentence was matched by the court with a definitive ban on practicing the profession of dentist, it is recalled.
But above all, seventeen French victims of the “horror dentist” will receive compensation of between 5,000 and 40,000 euros, according to their lawyer interviewed today by AFP. “These are correct compensation that allows people to feel repaired,” he said. Finally, the latter specified that the first 17 victims obtained 4,000 euros each for “exceptional permanent damage” recognized by the Civi.
The drama of a medical desert
“The exceptional permanent damage was recognized for all by the Civi which considered the specificity of these cases, because it is not the same thing to be a victim after an accident and following an act of care”, the lawyer pointed out. In ten other cases, the Civi’s decision is expected on October 3. In total, justice recognized that 85 patients had suffered violence, including 45 mutilations.
As a reminder, this Dutch dentist had settled in 2008 in Château-Chinon, in the center of France, a region devoid of doctors where he led great train. But patient complaints had accumulated in 2011, denouncing painful and poorly performed care, as well as overbilling and various embezzlement.
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