“Mark” van Nierop, a false Dutch dentist, is accused of having mutilated a hundred patients in Château-Chinon. He will have to answer for his actions before French justice on Tuesday.
The “horror dentist” is back in France, but on the dock this time. “Mark” Van Nierop, a fake Dutch doctor, will be tried from this Tuesday before the Nevers Criminal Court. He is accused of having mutilated more than a hundred patients in his former dental office located in Château-Chinon (Nièvre).
This Dutchman, now aged 51, worked in this town of more than 2,000 inhabitants, between 2008 and 2013, before being indicted by the French justice for “willful violence resulting in permanent mutilation”, “Fraud” and “forgery and use of forgery”. The charges are particularly sordid.
Mark van Nierop practiced “horse anesthesia”, according to accounts. Once the patient was stunned, he allegedly operated on them, ignoring basic rules of hygiene and asepsis. In their gums, some have found bits of strawberry and roulette, or pieces of bandage. The dentist would have dislocated jaws, sewn gums with the cheek, healthy teeth pulled out for no medical reason – all, of course, overcharged.
The victims of the “dentist butcher”, as the media call him, suffered from various disorders, ranging “from an onset of sepsis to infarction through all kinds of dental problems”, specifies the dental collective of Nièvre , which brings together hundreds of complainants. To limit the appearance of abscesses and infections, the practitioner would have prescribed antibiotics at very high doses.
Recruited by a Headhunter
Recruited in the region in 2008 by a head hunter, he had nevertheless been welcomed as a messiah by the inhabitants. It must be said that in Château-Chinon, in the middle of the medical desert, we had not seen a dentist for two years. The casting error remains glaring, however, since Mark van Nierop had already been prosecuted in 2003 in his country for similar facts. Since then, he had been forgotten.
Result, after his indictment, the false dentist had fled to Canada in December 2013. There, he would have met a woman on the Internet and wanted to settle with her, according to the local press. Under an international arrest warrant, he was extradited last year to the Netherlands, his country of origin.
Mark van Nierop has always refused his extradition to France, where he is also accused of the murder of his first wife, which he allegedly committed in 2006. The investigation is still ongoing. The man says he suffers from “psychological problems” including “problems of sexual identity and suicidal tendencies” requiring special treatment available, according to him, only in the Netherlands. An unconvincing argument for the judges, who validated his transfer to France.
He faces ten years’ imprisonment and a fine of 150,000 euros.
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