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Lionel Guedj and his father were sentenced to eight and five years in prison respectively for having mutilated nearly 400 patients between 2006 and 2012. The two dentists performed interventions on healthy teeth to inflate the bill.
It’s in videoconferencing from the Draguignan remand center (Var) that the former dentist Lionel Guedj attended the reading of the decision on Friday October 20. In images filmed on the last day of the trial in June 2023, he and his father, also accused, were escorted to the jeers of the victims. After more than ten years of proceedings, Lionel Guedj was sentenced to eight years in prison. His father, who appeared free, received a five-year prison sentence with an immediate committal warrant.
Filing of an appeal in cassation for Lionel Guedj
They are accused of having mutilated nearly 400 patients between 2006 and 2012. “For the civil parties, this sanction is also the recognition of the status of victim, and it is also the first step to finally be in a process of compensation which they have been refused until now”declared Master Marc Ceccaldilawyer for 57 civil parties. For six years, the two dentists performed interventions on healthy teeth to increase the bill. For the unions, theHealth Insurance should have reacted sooner. Lionel’s lawyer Guedj announced the filing of the Friday of a cassation appeal.