Indicted for around fifty new cases of poisoning, the anesthetist from Besançon Frédéric Péchier would have “a complex personality, organized in a perverse mode, with a narcissistic component”, if we are to believe a new psychocriminological expertise.
It is a document that throws a little more trouble on the personality of the former doctor-anesthesiologist of Besançon.
While Frédéric Péchier was brought before the prosecution last Thursday, suspected by investigators of being involved in “fifty cases” of poisoning, Republican East published this Sunday excerpts from its psychocriminological expertise. Written at the end of April by two experts at the request of the examining magistrate, and 44 pages long, it describes Dr Péchier as a “complex personality, organized in a perverse mode, with a narcissistic component”.
“Mr. Péchier attaches great importance to the eyes of others”, write the two experts, considering that “the tensions” between the anesthetist and his colleagues “probably favored the acting out”. They add that the personality of the doctor would “legitimately fuel a suspicion as to his possible guilt”.
A “willingness to harm” according to his lawyers
Asked by AFP, the defense lawyers said they were “dismayed” by the press release of this court document. “The only purpose of this expertise is to harm Dr. Péchier and the next hearing before the investigating chamber,” said Me Randall Schwerdorffer.
According to the defense, this expertise is “questionable, both in its quality and in its content”. In question: the methods of expertise used by the authors, who never met Dr. Péchier and based their conclusions on the elements of the file. “I don’t know what psychocriminology is. It’s not a recognized science, it’s not an authoritative science in legal matters,” said Me Schwerdorffer on BFMTV. His other lawyer, Me Jean-Yves Le Borgne, told him that there are “other expert reports in the file which say it is completely normal”.
17 new cases of poisoning
Suspected of having “polluted pockets of rehydration solution or pockets of paracetamol with local anesthetics or potassium” of patients aged 4 to 80, while they were operated on between 2008 and 2016, Dr Péchier makes the subject to new charges.
Already indicted in 2017 for 7 suspected poisonings, including two fatalities, he is now the subject of a new investigation for 17 new cases of poisoning of patients. In total, the investigation relates to around fifty reports of “serious adverse events” (SAE) which took place in clinics where the anesthetist practiced. “These are unexpected events with regard to the state of health and the pathology of the person and whose consequences are death, the risk of vital prognosis, the probable occurrence of a permanent functional deficit including including a congenital anomaly or malformation”, specifies the High Authority of Health.
Dr Péchier continues to claim his innocence.
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