two sisters posing as doctors tried in the North

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Two sisters, nicknamed the “botox sisters”, posing as doctors on social networks are on trial from Wednesday September 13 in Valenciennes (North) for having illegally injected hyaluronic acid into hundreds of clients.

The trial of two sisterss, nicknamed the “boto sistersx“, opened Wednesday September 13 in Valenciennes (North). They must answer for illegal practice of medicine or endangering others. Around thirty people filed complaints, like the client of lawyer Stéphane Dominguez, victim 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.

Some 600 people affected

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.


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