An investigation for "
breach of professional secrecy
" was opened in Paris after the attempt by a surgeon to auction off a radio of a Bataclan survivor, the Paris prosecutor's office told AFP on Tuesday January 25.
"
The investigations were entrusted to the BRDP
", the Brigade for the repression of delinquency to people, said this source.
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According to Mediapart, this renowned orthopedic surgeon, Emmanuel Masmejean, auctioned on OpenSea, a site specializing in the sale of digital NFT objects, the x-ray of a Bataclan survivor that he had operated on, on which we see a front -arm pierced by a Kalashnikov bullet.
The boss of the AP-HP Martin Hirsch had immediately announced that the hospitals of Paris would take legal action, denouncing a “
scandalous act
”.
According to Mediapart, the radio was on sale for the sum of 2776 dollars.
"gross error"
The Bataclan survivor is "
extremely shocked
" by the doctor's "
mercantile approach
" and "
contempt
", her lawyer said in a statement on Monday. It is “
a gross error that I bitterly regret
”, for his part indicated the same day the doctor on his Twitter account. “
I realize that I have completely lost my way in an inept and inappropriate approach which legitimately offended those I had the honor of caring for: the victims of attacks
”, he added. The doctor specifies that he destroyed “
the work in question
” and assured that he had “
derived no profit from
it ”.
Opened in September, the trial of the jihadist attacks that killed 130 people in Paris and Saint-Denis on November 13, 2015 is due to continue until May.