Lionel Guedj and his father Jean-Claude Guedj are judged for voluntary mutilation on nearly 350 patients. In this second week of the trial, the Criminal Court began the hearing of the civil parties.
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One has released his bridges from his pocket, others approached the court, rolled up their lips to show necrotic gums or full of cysts. At the trial of Lionel Gedj, former Marseille dentist, and his father Jean-Claude Guedj, judged since February 28 for voluntary mutilation on nearly 350 patients, the long sequence of the hearing of the civilian parts began.
At the foot of the court, they deposit ten years of pain, expose their “spoiled life”, express their anger against “this butcher”. The complainants, mostly modest inhabitants of the northern Marseille neighborhoods, chained their testimonies, illustrating concretely “the GEDJ system” described by the judicial experts.
According to the Jacques-Henri Torres (Chu de Montpellier), who had achieved global expertise, “Dr. Lionel Guedj’s professional activity was fully based on an optimal profit system that at most exploit the conditions of the catch. in charge of health insurance, with the most full contempt of patient health “. This “industrial policy” was to ask the maximum of prostheses, one of the most remunerative acts, including on healthy teeth, replaced by large bridges made and placed at the SKIT. “A prosthesis on a minor 15 years old when his growth is not even completed, it’s an aberration,” explained, another expert.
The room retains a stupefaction cry whenever a civil part announces the number of devitalized teeth without any medical justification. This is the case when a young woman (the civil parties have predominantly desired anonymity) begins her testimony: “We do not remove 24 teeth at 18 years old.” The beneficiary of the CMU, she had come to consult Lionel Guedj In 2006, for fragile enamel problems. The incomplete disinfection of the roots and their imperfect shutter had resulted in repetitive infections of twenty teeth. “Sixteen years since I have pain 24 hours a day, seven days a week. My life is in stand-by. When we suffer like that, we withdraw from society, we want to be very small, of To put yourself in a hole, then we do not go out, even to go to work. “The young woman evokes” shame “when one of his bridges was, one day, fell to the restaurant.
Patients Full confidence
All describe how Lionel Guedj had embobed them, “put under hypnosis”. A cabinet “who shone”, no waiting time, a reputation, from his installation in 2005, to “do great work” … “By tapping on the shoulder, he said,” Do not worry No, I’ll take everything away to put you from star teeth. He told me for an appointment, I found myself with mouse teeth, “says a 50-year-old driver. Noting that the waiting room was “armored people”, he said, “It’s a good.”
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