It is suspected that the doctor injected 24 patients aged from 8 to 80, between 2008 and 2016.
French anesthetist Frédéric Péchier has been indicted over the poisoning of 24 patients, nine of whom were killed, by allegedly administering deadly injections during procedures, in hopes of then resuscitating them and appearing a hero.
The first hints of suspicion surrounding Péchier were raised in 2017 when the well-regarded doctor, who headed a team of ten anesthetists, was involved in the operations of two patients who suffered unexplained heart attacks within a space of ten days. Investigators began to entertain a “pyromaniac firefighter” hypothesis, believing the doctor had knowingly and deliberately administered potassium chloride and other anesthetics in lethal doses into hydration infusion bags.
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