Based in the Lower Town district of Dunkirk, Dr Pierre Goidin was attacked twice in a week by young people aged 13 to 15.
Hard week for Dr Pierre Goidin, 55-year-old general practitioner, in Dunkirk. Established for two years in a sensitive district of the northern city, its situation is becoming untenable. He became the victim of a group of teenagers, who harass him, and even assaulted him twice in a week, leaving him with a broken bone.
“There is a park opposite, with young people permanently,” he explains in The general practitioner. And it works part of the day… ”. In principle, they stay across the street, but last Wednesday three of them settled on the doctor’s window sill on the ground floor. “Obviously, it’s extremely embarrassing in a doctor’s office, when you’re examining a patient,” he continues. And I asked them to leave several times. “
Tibial plateau fracture
A request remained unanswered. Quite annoyed, Dr. Goidin ends up going out shortly after 12:30 p.m. and the end of his morning consultations, to try to convince them. The ensuing altercation results, for the doctor, in a fracture of the tibial plateau.
Despite the complaint, the harassment only increased. Forced to move around with the help of crutches, the GP continued to work, and the teenagers’ warning shots continued. They came back in the afternoon, then the following evening. “Around 9:30 pm, while I was stitching up a patient, they came back to knock on the door several times,” says the doctor. A patient finally intervened.
Harassment and reprisals
While calm seemed to have returned this Friday, in the early evening, a new altercation took place. This time, the police arrived on time and arrested three teenagers aged 13, 14 and 15 for group violence. But not for long. They have already been released, and Dr Goidin fears reprisals.
“I come back to work with a ball in my stomach, he explains this Tuesday in The voice of the North. It is a permanent anguish. I lodged a complaint twice. I have no news of the outcome of the proceedings. My patients are afraid, my replacement no longer wants to come. The trickiest thing is in the evening, when I finish my consultations, between 9 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. I expect them to come back. And there, what will happen? “
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