The anesthesiologist Frédéric Péchier, indicted in Besançon for 24 poisonings, and whose judicial control prohibited him from practicing medicine, will be able to practice it again, with the exception of his specialty which remains "prohibited", announced this Wednesday the public prosecutor's office of Besançon.
"The ban on practicing medicine only concerns the specialty of anesthetist" and does not relate "to the whole of professional practice", indicated in a press release the general prosecutor's office of Besançon.
It is however the council of the order of doctors who will have to decide in fine if Péchier, who denies the alleged facts, will be able or not to practice again, specifies the parquet floor, relaying a decision of the chamber of the instruction of the court call from Besançon.
The latter also "modified the judicial control to which" Frédéric Péchier "is subject since March 6, 2017, by removing the ban on appearing" in the Doubs, department where his children reside in particular and where he can therefore return, according to the prosecution. general.
The other methods of judicial control are on the other hand "maintained", in particular the obligation "to fix his residence" in Vienne, where Dr. Péchier resides with his parents, specifies the court.
Already indicted in Besançon for 24 poisonings which he has always denied, Dr Péchier has been suspected since last September of eight new cases of potential poisoning of patients, including four fatalities.
Suspected of having polluted the infusion bags
"The investigating magistrate is now waiting for all the results of the ongoing expertise, expected for January 2023, to be returned to hear Dr Péchier, then decide whether to indict him for these eight new cases", indicated at the end of September the public prosecutor of Besançon, Étienne Manteaux.
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Frédéric Péchier, 50, is suspected of having polluted the infusion bags of patients aged between four and 80 to cause cardiac arrest and then demonstrate his skills as a resuscitator, but also discredit colleagues with whom he was in conflict.
He has never ceased to proclaim his innocence since the beginning of the case.
He had been hospitalized for several weeks from October 2021 after a suicide attempt.
