A ‘star’ anaesthetist has been accused of poisoning 30 patients so that he could show off his resuscitation skills.

Frédéric Pechier, 53, is suspected of being the ‘common denominator’ at two clinics in the French city of Besançon where a number of patients went into cardiac arrest in suspicious circumstances between 2008 to 2017.

He is alleged to have polluted the IV bags of dozens of people, 12 of whom could not be saved and died.

His youngest alleged victim – a four-year-old identified as Teddy – survived two cardiac arrests during a routine tonsil operation in 2016. The doctor’s oldest alleged victim was 89.

‘I have never poisoned anyone. I am innocent,’ Perchier declared on the first day of his trial, denying all charges against him.

The trial caps an investigation spanning eight

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