Doctor Christian Frey, former chief medical officer of the Grand Est police, was sentenced by the Metz criminal court for several sexual assaults.
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More than a month after his trial, the Metz criminal court sentenced Tuesday, November 23 Doctor Christian Frey, former chief medical officer of the Grand Est police, to 18 months suspended prison sentence for sexual assault, reports France Bleu Lorraine Nord. These sexual assaults were committed on police officers from the Lorraine, Alsace and Champagne-Ardenne regions during medical visits between 2016 and 2018.
Seventeen people from the national police became civil parties. Christian Frey was found guilty for 16 of them. He will have to pay them compensation ranging from 1,500 to 2,000 euros per victim. These sentences carry a five-year ineligibility sentence.
“He is downcast, while being combative. He has always maintained his position, namely that he only did his job, in accordance with what he was taught and asked to do.”, responded master Antoine Fittante, one of Christian Frey’s lawyers. “He has not yet decided whether to appeal this decision”, he added.
The former chief medical officer of the police held this strategic position in Metz for twenty years. According to France Bleu, it could influence careers, for example to validate the diploma of young police officers or to return to work or not after a sick leave.
Christian Frey has already been sentenced at first instance and on appeal to one year in prison suspended by the Criminal Court of Reims, in 2019 and 2020, for similar facts. He always explained his actions by a concern to detect possible cancers. The argument was not accepted by justice because none of his colleagues did not proceed like him. Isolated by his peers, he was struck off the Order of Physicians in May.