The body of this anesthetist was found in his car, in the forest, in February 2020. The investigations revealed “no element making it possible to sufficiently characterize the commission of a criminal offense.”
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The Hauts-de-Seine prosecutor’s office closed the open procedure for moral and professional harassment after the suicide on February 16, 2020 of a renowned anesthesiologist-resuscitator at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine in the Paris region, Franceinfo learned from a judicial source on Friday 12 November. His widow denounced hierarchical pressure within the hospital and had lodged a complaint.
The preliminary investigation had been opened several months after the filing of a complaint against X of the doctor’s widow. The investigations did not reveal “no element allowing sufficient characterization of the commission of a criminal offense”, explains this judicial source. The dismissal was notified to the family. The complainant’s lawyer declined to answer Franceinfo’s questions.
This investigation, opened almost a year after the events, was to verify whether the management of the American Hospital had been made aware of serious management problems or whether warning signals had been issued concerning this doctor or his service before the tragedy.
According to our information, the Parisian investigators of the brigade for the repression of delinquency in persons (BRDP) heard from dozens of former colleagues of the anesthesiologist, executives and administrators of the establishment. Among these witnesses, the former head of the anesthesia-intensive care unit, who denied having harassed the anesthesiologist, was dismissed from his managerial position at the American Hospital a few months after the tragedy.
The death of Emmanuel Marret had caused considerable emotion within the community of French anesthetists and among his colleagues at the American Hospital. The French society of anesthesia and resuscitation (Sfar) and the national union of anesthetists resuscitators (Snarf) had paid tribute to him, saluting “a brilliant doctor who holds a science thesis and numerous publications in national and international journals demonstrating extraordinary intelligence in all situations.”