Lionel Guedj, a former Marseille dentist prosecuted alongside his father for mutilating hundreds of patients, is well in a state to appear, concluded a medical expert, allowing the continuation of his appeal trial on Tuesday, May 30 in Marseille.
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There is no reason why the hearing should not continue. We will have him extracted (from the Baumettes prison) as soon as possible, "announced President Alain Vogelweith at the opening of the hearing on Tuesday morning.
"Star smiles"
This new judicial round had been interrupted as soon as it opened on Thursday, faced with the absence of the main defendant who argued, via his lawyer Julien Pinelli, heart problems and two recent ailments. Lionel Guedj finally arrived at the end of the morning, an hour and a half late, black beard, black T-shirt, looking haggard. He got out of a prison service vehicle as several of his victims looked on, who had booed him copiously when he was sentenced in September to eight years in prison. "He hurts me but I know, I shouldn't," says one of them. "Me, homeless people hurt me, not him," rages another.
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He promised them "star smiles". But some have seen their mouths completely toothless, without any medical reason, with lifelong sequelae. Red-eyed, his father Carnot, 71, sentenced to five years in prison at first instance and released pending this appeal trial, watched his son arrive handcuffed. Both defendants appealed their convictions, which had been accompanied by a permanent ban on practising dentistry.
"Appearance four days a week"
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The cardiovascular state (of Lionel Guedj) is compatible with his interrogation and his appearance four days a week, "detailed the medical expert in his report, stressing in passing that the former dentist, aged 43, was not a wearer of a pacemaker, contrary to what had been indicated by his lawyer on Thursday, but a box that records cardiac parameters.
The trial of the Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence, installed in the extraordinary trial room of the judicial court of Marseille, is supposed to last until June 30. Some 320 victims have joined the proceedings as civil parties in this high-profile case. The Guedj firm was established in 2005 in the deprived neighborhoods of the north of Marseille, in the heart of a population exempted from advancing the share of care reimbursed by health insurance.
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According to a calculation of the prosecution during the first trial, Lionel Guedj, a young dentist, had devitalized 3900 healthy teeth between 2006 and 2012, without any therapeutic justification, on 327 patients, for the sole purpose of placing them on the chain bridges (dental prostheses fixed on neighboring teeth to one or more missing teeth) very remunerative. Becoming in 2010 the best paid dentist in France, he drove a Ferrari, granted himself between 65,000 and 80,000 euros in monthly income and had accumulated a wealth of 13 million euros.
