The ex-stretcher-bearer dreamed of being a doctor. Presented to the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office after forty-eight hours in police custody, a 20-year-old man was indicted on Wednesday for “usurping the quality of a medical student, illegitimate access to information medical conditions and endangerment of others ”.
He is in particular suspected of having carried out guards and assisted in several surgical interventions in operating theaters, in particular at Beaujon hospital in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine) and at Cochin hospital (Paris XIVe).
Facilitated by the health context and distance courses, the imposture, revealed in early March by France Info, began at the start of the 2020 academic year. A time when the man, who worked as a stretcher bearer for the AP-HP at the Saclay University Hospital (Essonne), decides to slip into the shoes of a medical student of the Paris Descartes university.
“He managed to deceive the administration”
“He held a false student card,” confides someone close to the file. And he managed to deceive the administration of the university by ensuring that he spent his first two years of medicine at the university of Rouen. “
From a distance, the interested party manages to blend easily into the mass of future doctors. “He had managed to register on a Facebook discussion group of medical students, on which he had passed himself off as an external person and had offered to perform on-call duty as a replacement,” said the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office. . In this context, he was hired and worked several times for health establishments as a nursing assistant or operating assistant for several surgeons. “
The young man claims to be sick with Covid-19 to avoid partial exams
Anxious not to be unmasked, the false student even managed to avoid the obstacle of partials, organized face-to-face at the Paris Descartes university, by claiming an infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. A respite, which he took advantage of until mid-February, to get internships in several establishments.
Among them: Beaujon hospital in Clichy, but also Cochin hospital, where he was invited to the operating room to attend surgeries. Interventions that the respondent even took care to immortalize before posting the pictures on his Facebook page.
His journey came to an end after the bogus student was spotted by several doctors. “Each time, these internships were for a very short period because of his lack of skills or unsuitable behavior,” explains the Nanterre prosecutor’s office. Behaviors that have not failed to alert several health professionals.
He continued to practice in a Norman nursing home
“The AP-HP has in fact identified an individual who worked as a stretcher bearer in one of its hospitals and who then tried to pass himself off as a medical student,” we confirm to public assistance. It immediately reported these actions to the courts on the basis of Article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and alerted all of its hospital sites, in order to avoid any repetition by the person concerned. The University of Paris and ARS Ile-de-France have also been informed. “
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Summoned in the wake by the dean of the university, the bogus student did not however give up working in a health establishment. The judicial investigation, entrusted to the Brigade for the repression of delinquency against the person (BRDP), in fact made it possible to establish that the person concerned – whose psychiatric expertise carried out in police custody showed a need for care – had been employed since March 1 in a nursing home in Seine-Maritime, where he is from.
Placed in police custody after spontaneously presenting himself to the Nanterre police station on Monday, he generally recognizes the facts with which he is accused. He was placed under judicial control, with in particular a ban on appearing and practicing in any medical or paramedical establishment and an obligation of care.
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