VIDEO – This former doctor sentenced to two years suspended sentence for “poisoning” of end of life patient was found in his car in The Landes. His prognosis is engaged.
The former ER Bayonne Nicolas Bonnemaison condemned there one week to two years in prison, suspended for caused the death of a patient at end of life, has attempted suicide Saturday morning. His prognosis is engaged, indicated several sources familiar with the matter.
Nicolas Bonnemaison, 54, was found in a vehicle in the town of Tosse, in Landes, on a dirt road edge of a wood, apparently after taking drugs. The alert was given by two riders who spotted the car, whose engine was on, says South West . According to the regional newspaper, the former doctor had tried to strangle with his car exhaust gases. The gendarmes have in fact found that a hose was attached to the exhaust pipe and passed through the open window.
Nicolas Bonnemaison was transported to University Hospital of Bordeaux. No further clarification on the health status of the ER could be obtained from the hospital.
Acquitted then sentenced
The old doctor had been sentenced last Saturday on appeal by the Court of Assizes of the Maine-et-Loire, Angers, for deliberately caused the death of a patient of 86 years in April 2011, Françoise Iramuno. The latter was hospitalized two days earlier after a hemorrhagic stroke that had plunged into a coma. In a publicized trial, in the heart of the issues of end of life, the former emergency room had been paid for by against six other patients, also incurable and end of life, which he was also accused of having committed suicide, with lethal injections.
This appeal trial intervene 16 months after a first instance trial in Pau, at the Assize Court of Pyrenees-Atlantiques, where jurors had, this time, acquitted Nicolas Bonnemaison all the facts. But the public prosecutor had appealed, hence the Angers trial. During the appeal trial, Nicolas Bonnemaison was hammered, as at first instance, he had administered injections for the sole purpose of “relieving not kill”, the dying patients, even though he knew that the effect would accelerate death.
Tried but combative
The former ER appeared tested by this second trial in two weeks, but also quite combative. After the verdict, his lawyers had mostly described as “relieved, because for him it is the end of this judicial ordeal.” According to a member of his entourage, former emergency physician had appeared in good these last few days.
After the Angers verdict, lawyers Nicolas Bonnemaison had indicated that their client waived an appeal on points of law, but would enter the Disciplinary Division of the College of Physicians of a request for review of his removal, decided in 2014, and confirmed by the State Council.
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