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On Wednesday September 13, the trial of two sisters nicknamed “the botox sisters” opened in Valenciennes. They are notably suspected of having illegally injected botox while posing as health professionals.
Wednesday September 13, in the Valenciennes courtroom (North)there are two of them sistersnicknamed the “sisters Botox”. They must answer for illegal practice of medicine or endangering others. Around thirty people filed complaints, like the client of lawyer Me Stéphane Dominguezvictim of injection suffered. “She was contacted on Instagram. She responded to an ad, and she showed up in a place where you had fake diplomas hanging on the wall.”he explains.
“I found myself like a leper”
Benoit, 53, another client of the two sisters, is also one of the victims. His symptoms were very rapid and especially painful. “There were deformities, abnormal swellings, headaches, vomiting. The more we advanced, the more it deteriorated and worst‘was. I found myself like a leper”he says. The two women rented lounges for operations. On social networks, they presented themselves under the pseudonym “Doctor Lougayne” for injections of anti-wrinkle products, sometimes with bottles purchased abroad and expired, specify the gendarmes, whose investigation also points to hygiene problems. The activity of the “sisters botox” would concern some 600 people located in the North and the Paris region.