The Marseille dental mutilation case will be retried, the former dentists Lionel Guedj and his father having appealed against 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, the public prosecutor’s office of Aix-en-Provence told AFP.
Convicted of intentional violence on 320 patients
Convicted of intentional violence which led to 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.
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”, explained to AFP Me Frédéric Monneret, lawyer for Lionel Guedj.
The two former dentists in solitary confinement
The two former dentists have been in solitary confinement since their placement on September 8.
In its 857-page judgment, the criminal court had pointed to a system that consisted of devitalizing 3,900 healthy teeth in the mouths of more than three hundred patients to place, in poor sanitary conditions, large bridges for a single mercantile purpose.