Overview
- The Doubs assizes court examined how Tedy, then 4, suffered a cardiac arrest within minutes of entering the operating room for a tonsil procedure in February 2016.
- Investigators described the event as exceptionally rare in a healthy child, noting he survived after two days in a coma and five days in intensive care.
- Now 14, the boy attends the hearings, and his family reports lasting physical limitations and cognitive difficulties as they seek clarity on the cause.
- Police and expert testimony revisited a separate 2016 death at the same clinic, with an autopsy finding mepivacaine and tramadol intoxication in patient Laurence Nicod.
- Investigators floated a possible targeting of another patient linked to a colleague with whom Péchier had a dispute, a connection the defense rejects as aberrant; Péchier is tried free on charges of 30 poisonings, including 12 fatal, with a verdict due December 19.