2023-11-30 17:50:42
Guilt has been established, but he will not serve time. In May 2022, a veterinarian was acquitted after prosecution for “forgery and use of forgery” for writing false prescriptions that allowed the suicide of a friend suffering from Charcot disease. On Thursday, he was found guilty on appeal in Angers and exempted from sentence. The friend suffering from this incurable neurodegenerative disease, aged 59, was found dead at his home on May 21, 2019. His autopsy revealed the presence of a deadly molecule from veterinary euthanasia products.
A judicial investigation for assassination and attempted assassination had been opened against the veterinarian, accusations finally abandoned during the investigation. The doctor, aged around sixty, was eventually prosecuted for providing false prescriptions. He was acquitted in 2022 for these acts of “forgery and use of forgery” but the prosecution appealed.
“There is legislative hypocrisy”
At the hearing before the criminal court, the practitioner explained that he “at first refused” to respond to his friend’s request before finally giving in to his distress. He had left a note before killing himself: “You must especially let me go this time. »
“If assisted suicide is not punishable by criminal law, it is the means provided that are. There is legislative hypocrisy. We do not dare to condemn assisted suicide but we prevent it indirectly. It is not up to a clear debate on the end of life and its ethics,” said the defense lawyer, Me Antoine Barret, at the end of the appeal hearing, held at the end of June.
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