Overview

• Tribunal judiciaire de Senlis held GHPSO fully responsible and issued a €150,000 fine, with €80,000 suspended, for involuntary homicide and systemic care deficiencies.
• The conviction reflects failures in the 2017 treatment of 26-day-old Liiam, whose condition worsened into septic shock following a misdiagnosis.
• A Necker Hospital expert report highlighted absent respiratory monitoring, postponed examinations, delayed antibiotics, and a failure to alert senior medical staff.
• Liiam was initially diagnosed with bronchiolitis and given only paracetamol, a delay that deprived him of timely sepsis management.
• The verdict has renewed demands for structural reforms across GHPSO’s Creil and Senlis sites and intensified debate over public hospital accountability in France.