• Dentist in the northern districts of Marseille, Lionel Guedj is accused of mutilating hundreds of patients.

  • The public prosecutor of Marseille requested the maximum sentence against him, 10 years in prison, as well as a fine of 375,000 euros and the definitive ban on practicing the profession of dental surgeon.

  • Also present in the dental office, Jean-Claude Guedj is judged alongside his son.

    The public prosecutor requested against him the sentence of 4 years in prison and one year in prison suspended, accompanied by a fine of 150,000 euros and a ban on practicing the profession of dentist.

The maximum penalty.

Under the terms of an indictment lasting several hours, the public prosecutor of Marseille Marion Chabot asked the court to sentence Lionel Guedj to a ten-year prison term, accompanied by a fine of 375,000 euros and the prohibition definitive to practice the profession of dental surgeon, in view of "the seriousness of the facts" and the "number of victims" of this former dentist from the northern districts of Marseille, accused of dental mutilation on hundreds of patients.

The public prosecutor also requires “the confiscation of his building constituting his main residence”, as well as “the confiscation of all the property seized” during the procedure.

Before being arrested ten years ago, Lionel Guedj was at the head of the most lucrative dental practice in France, with a turnover exceeding 3 million euros, enabling him to acquire buildings, works of art and other luxury cars.

"A Machiavellian Plan"

For the public prosecutor, there is no doubt about the motive of this dentist, who chained patients at a frantic pace, requiring, if the rules of the art were respected, days of 52 hours according to the expertise.

“What drove the Guedj grinding machine so much, pre-programmed on such a Machiavellian plan?

Money, optimal profit, launches Marion Chabot.

Money is Lionel Guedj's fuel.

At no time did we seek treatment.

Timeliness and quality of care were not sought after.

“And to accuse:” Doctors Guedj had a very personal conception of this notion of risk-benefit ratio: they took the benefits and they left all the risks to their patients.

“Many on the benches of the civil parties are indeed still suffering today,

A “grinding machine” that Marion Chabot even qualifies as “Guedj industrial policy with an unequivocal standardized operating mode for the 327 civil parties in the procedure”.

A "cynical, perfidious method" dissected during the six weeks of an extraordinary trial, which consisted of devitalizing no less than 3,900 teeth in just a few years on hundreds of patients, to install lucrative bridges on them, and this, whatever whatever their state of health.

“The prey is thus captured”

“The perfectly fine-tuned mechanism is nothing more than a ploy, which will be based on a strategy: that of massive promises of the most profitable prosthetic work,” says Marion Chabot.

And this is also based on a tactic: anesthetizing the patient's conscience from the start.

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For this, Lionel Guedj, with a personality described as “cold, devoid of any empathy”, is accused of “starting work by surprise, from the first consultation, to better retain the patient and make him dependent on treatment plans.

“We can no longer turn back, breathes Marion Chabot.

The prey is captured.

She is forced to go all the way.

The damage was done then.

We are faced with a systematization of the harm done or the wrong done in the execution of the treatment plan.

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In this company, Lionel Guedj acted with his father, also a dentist, Jean-Claude Guedj, according to the public prosecutor who even speaks of a "criminal association".

“Jean-Claude Guedj comes to explain to you that he saw nothing, heard nothing, plague the public prosecutor Michel Sastre.

But many victims passed in front of this bar saw it in this cabinet.

"In piloting the Guedj machine, Lionel and Jean-Claude are constantly adapting to stay the course," says Marion Chabot.

Also, "considering his full and complete role alongside his son", the public prosecutor requires the sentence of four years in prison and one year in prison suspended, accompanied by a fine of 150,000 euros and a ban on practicing the profession of dentist against Jean-Claude Guedj.

Severe sentences which were received in a silence of astonishment, both on the side of the defendants and the many civil parties present.

The court's decision will certainly be reserved, after the defense arguments scheduled for this week.

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