Overview
- Two Paris plastic surgeons now face charges of failure to assist a person in danger, drug offenses, and practicing medicine without a license.
- Regulatory penalties include a 15‑month suspension and €50,000 fine for the lead surgeon and a 12‑month suspension and €20,000 fine for the assistant.
- Investigators and a judicial source said the injections were ruled out as the direct cause of death, which was attributed to cardiac hypertrophy.
- The patient had taken substances banned in France as well as erectile dysfunction medications, according to the investigation.
- The assistant surgeon had not been registered with the French Medical Association despite reportedly working in France for more than two decades.