A French doctor tried to sell an X-ray of the arm of a woman injured during the bloody jihadist attack on the Bataclan in Paris in 2015. Paris hospitals will take the case to court.
The Paris hospitals (APHP) will take legal action after the online information site Mediapart revealed on Saturday that a surgeon is trying to sell an X-ray taken on a woman injured in the jihadist attack on the Bataclan hall, tweeted its director general, Martin Hirsch. .
In an email sent to APHP staff, Hirsch denounces “a scandalous act committed by a surgeon and university professor, who works at the European hospital Georges Pompidou, which we learned about in the press.”
According to Mediapart, the renowned orthopedic surgeon Emmanuel Masmejean, put up for auction on OpenSea, a site specialized in the sale of digital objects NFT (digital certificates of authenticity), the X-ray of a survivor of the (attack against the concert hall) Bataclan, to which he had operated, and in which one of his forearms is pierced by a bullet from a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
The surgeon admitted these facts to Mediapart, explaining that he did it “for a pedagogical vocation” and that he later withdrew the offer, however, the x-ray was still posted online this Sunday. The doctor acknowledged having made a “mistake” from “an ethical point of view.”
The X-ray was taken during the care of a survivor of the attack, operated by the French surgeon.
According to Mediapart, the image could be purchased for $2,776. It was still available at OpenSea on Sunday (23). Under the photo that the “product” proposes, the doctor explains that the victim “lost her boyfriend in the attack and had an open fracture in her left forearm, with a Kalachnikov bullet embedded in the skin tissues.”
The association of victims of the attack on November 13, “Life for Paris”, said in a statement “to stand by the victim of the attack, who is now also a victim of the stupidity and greed of a “doctor” who has obviously forgotten the code of ethics and seems to lack the most basic judgment and empathy”.
Another association of victims, Fraternité et Vérité, denounced “an odious act” but “isolated and not representative of the work of the health professionals of the AP-HP, in whom we have full confidence.”