Here's one that you don't hear everyday. From AFP via Breitbart.com:
Michel Maure is facing 97 charges of misleading
advertising, aggravated deceit, endangering lives, and involuntary
injury between 2000 and 2004 in the trial in the southern port of
Marseille set to last two weeks.
Most of his patients were women, for whom
he carried out liposuctions or breast implants, but he also performed
operations on men. A French doctor who told investigators he
was one of the world's best cosmetic surgeons went on trial Monday
accused of mutilating and endangering the lives of dozens of men and
women.
The 59-year-old, who has been
struck off the medical register, is also accused of not declaring
workers in his clinic and of threatening a victim to stop her from
making a complaint about him.
Maure denies he was responsible for any wrongdoing and claims his accusers are competitors who want to drive him out of business, and that the witnesses against him are "thieves" who don't want to pay for their surgeries.
He worked in a clinic which investigators
described as "dirty and badly maintained" where patients faced an
"immediate risk of death or very serious after-effects."
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