The practitioner’s defense had seized the investigating chamber to request the nullity of two supplementary indictments of Dr. Péchier, which occurred during his interrogation on March 9. She was not heard. The investigating chamber of the Besançon Court of Appeal on Wednesday rejected the two requests for nullity filed by the former anesthetist Frédéric Péchier, suspected of 30 poisonings of patients, including 12 fatal, we learned. to the Attorney General Marie-Christine Tarrare. His defense had also requested the cancellation of all of the interrogations of the former anesthesiologist conducted in March by the investigating judges.
The prosecution followed by the investigating chamber
Finally, the public prosecutor’s office had requested the rejection of these two requests and was followed by the investigating chamber, which “rendered two judgments today rejecting all the requests”, indicated the general prosecutor in a press release. The defense of Doctor Péchier had also formulated in March a request for the cancellation of 26 expert reports, but it finally withdrew from this request in June.
As a reminder, Frédéric Péchier, 51, is suspected of having polluted, between 2008 and 2017, the infusion bags of patients at the Clinique Saint-Vincent and the Polyclinique de Besançon to cause cardiac arrest and then demonstrate his talents as a resuscitator. , but also to discredit colleagues with whom he was in conflict. He has maintained his innocence since the start of this affair.