The dental mutilation case in Marseille will be retried, former dentists Lionel Guedj and his father have filed an appeal against their prison sentences. The appeals court has four months to try this case, but it can extend this period twice, the Aix-en-Provence Attorney General’s office said.
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Convicted of intentional violence that led to the mutilation of about 320 patients, for fraud to social security and for concurring in forgery and use of forgeries, Lionel Guedj was sentenced to eight years in prison on 8 September. His father, Carnot, had been sentenced to five years in prison. The prosecution, who had asked for ten years of imprisonment against Lionel Guedj, the maximum sentence, and five years of imprisonment, including one year with suspension of probation against his father, filed an incidental appeal – in response to an appeal – relating to the entire file.
Conviction and compensation appeal
Lionel Guedj, 42, had not challenged the measures in his favor, in particular the non-confiscation by the court of the family home, a villa near Aix-en-Provence passed into his wife’s name during the briefing, but the prosecution’s appeal will call the matter into question.
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The dentist, on the other hand, challenged the prison sentence and the compensation component of the victim. “Having begun to appeal the civil parties, we have chosen to appeal the civil provisions of the sentence”said Maître Frédéric Monneret, Lionel Guedj’s lawyer.
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The two former dentists have been in solitary confinement since their placement on September 8. In its 857-page ruling, the criminal court had indicated 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 commercial purpose.
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