The Marseille dental mutilation case will be retried, former dentists Lionel Guedj and his father have appealed their prison sentences, we learned on Wednesday from a judicial source. The court of appeal has four months to judge this case but can extend this period twice, said the general prosecutor’s office of Aix-en-Provence.
Convicted of willful violence resulting in the mutilation of some 320 patients, of fraud against Social Security and of complicity in forgery and use of forgery, Lionel Guedj was sentenced to eight years in prison on September 8. His father Carnot had been sentenced to five years in prison. The prosecution, which had demanded ten years in prison against Lionel Guedj, the maximum sentence, and five years in prison including one year suspended probation against his father, filed an incidental appeal (appeal filed in response to an appeal) relating to the entire file.
The two dentists in solitary confinement in detention
Lionel Guedj, 42, had not appealed the provisions which were favorable to him, in particular the non-confiscation by the court of the family home, a villa near Aix-en-Provence passed in the name of his wife during the instruction, but the appeal of the prosecution will put this question back in the debate. The dentist, on the other hand, appealed the prison sentence and the victim compensation component. “Civil parties having started to appeal on their side, we have chosen to appeal on the civil provisions of the judgment,” said Me Frédéric Monneret, lawyer for Lionel Guedj. The two former dentists have been in solitary confinement since their placement on September 8.
In its 857-page judgment, the criminal court pointed to a system that consisted of devitalizing 3,900 healthy teeth in the mouths of more than 300 patients to place large bridges there, in poor sanitary conditions, for a single commercial purpose.