On a blue-skied summer morning, Place Pasteur in the historic center of Besançon is abuzz with colorful market stalls selling trinkets and antiques. But it’s also here that residents bring a different ...

Anesthetist Frédéric Péchier, at the courthouse in the eastern French city of Besançon, on September 8, 2025. SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP Amid a church-like stillness, Prosecutor Thérèse Brunisso recited the ...

The trial of Frédéric Péchier, a French anesthesiologist accused of poisoning 30 patients, opened Monday, September 8, in the eastern city of Besançon, France. Is Péchier a serial killer in a white ...

A French doctor accused of intentionally poisoning 30 child and adult patients, 12 of whom died, was "above suspicion" at the start of a probe in 2017, an investigator said on Thursday. Frederic ...

A French doctor accused of intentionally poisoning 30 child and adult patients, 12 of whom died, went on trial Monday, saying before the hearing he was not responsible for the "distress" of his ...

Frédéric Péchier reportedly blamed "medical errors" by his colleagues for the majority of the alleged poisonings Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

A French doctor accused of intentionally poisoning 30 child and adult patients, 12 of whom died, went on trial Monday, saying before the hearing he wasn't responsible for the "distress" of his alleged ...

BESANCON, France (AFP) — A French doctor accused of intentionally poisoning 30 child and adult patients, 12 of whom died, went on trial Monday, saying before the hearing he was not responsible for the ...

A French doctor accused of intentionally poisoning 30 child and adult patients, 12 of whom died, went on trial Monday, saying before the hearing he was not responsible for the "distress" of his ...