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Anaesthetist Frédéric Péchier is suspected of poisoning and murder at the Saint-Vincent hospital in the eastern French city of Besançon. Photograph: Sebastien Bozon/AFP
French anaesthetist accused of fatally poisoning patients

The prosecutor in the eastern French city of Besançon on Friday appealed against a judge’s decision to free Frédéric Péchier, a 47-year-old anaestheti(...)

Frederic Pechier has denied any wrongdoing but the prosecution has asked that he be kept under arrest ahead of trial, where he will face a life sentence. File photograph: Sebastien Bozon/AFP/Getty
French doctor charged with killing nine patients

An anaesthetist in the French eastern city of Besancon is suspected of poisoning patients during surgery to trigger heart failures and then heroically(...)