Overview
- On the third and concluding day of civil-party arguments, counsel for 4-year-old Tedy Hoerter‑Tarby said the 2016 cardiac arrest “bears the signature of Frédéric Péchier,” citing lasting after‑effects on the child.
- Attorneys emphasized class resentment highlighted in court by wiretapped family remarks attributed to Péchier, which the child’s lawyer framed as contempt toward victims’ families.
- Colleagues were presented as “indirect victims,” with lawyers recounting repeated unexplained arrests among patients of anesthetists such as Dr. Sylvain Serri and asserting the goal was to wound rival practitioners.
- The prosecution alleges infusion bags were tainted with potassium, local anesthetics, adrenaline or heparin to trigger cardiac arrest in patients treated by other anesthetists.
- Péchier, tried free and facing life imprisonment, denies being the poisoner while acknowledging a poisoner operated at Clinique Saint‑Vincent; 27 lawyers represent 193 civil parties, including victims’ association Avapolvi.