The Paris Assize Court answered “yes” to all questions on the guilt of renowned gynecologist André Hazout. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison for rape and sexual assault.
The verdict is in! The French gynecologist André Hazout was sentenced this Thursday to 8 years in prison for rape and sexual assault, and to a definitive ban from practicing medicine. This 70-year-old man, a world-renowned specialist in medically assisted procreation, was accused of rape and sexual assault on six of his patients. The sentence handed down is therefore below that required yesterday by the Advocate General who had asked for twelve years in prison, and hoped that the accused would take “not less than ten years”.
Dr Hazout denies rape
During this day, the lawyers of Dr. André Hazout pleaded the guilt of their client for “sexual attacks”, but without the circumstances of vulnerability of the victims with regard to the function exercised by the accused.
Throughout their pleadings My Francis Szpiner and Caroline Toby endeavored to spoil the image of “sexual predator” given to their client.
In comments reported by the Medical Press Agency (APM), the latter even went so far as to denounce an “orchestration”, a “real communication operation made possible by two colorful characters”, Me Claude Katz, the one of the lawyers for the civil parties, and one of the victims. Because even if he admitted having had consensual sexual relations with certain patients, and admitted certain sexual assaults, the man has always denied any rape. He also reiterated his apologies at the bar.
Handcuffed out of court
And his lawyer Me Francis Szpiner to conclude by trying to soften the jury on the suffering that his client is experiencing today. “André Hazout’s life is a field of ruin. The removal of the medical order is the most humiliating sanction. He is an outcast, humiliated, he is nothing more. He no longer has a wife, no more friends. Who is he threatening now, besides himself? “, He declared, indicates the MPA.
Finally, the lawyer wished to recall that “in the balance, there is also all the good that he has done, in particular by being part of the” dream team “of the PMA with Pr René Frydman and of others. This man has lost everything, through his fault, it’s a huge mess. ”
In the end, after four hours of deliberation, the Assize Court answered “yes” to all the questions on the guilt of this former great doctor. André Hazout appeared free. After the verdict was pronounced, he came out of the court in handcuffs. He now has ten days to appeal the decision.
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