The eight-year prison sentence imposed at first instance on Lionel Guedj, a Marseille dentist prosecuted for having mutilated some 400 patients in the city’s working-class neighborhoods, was confirmed on Friday October 20 by the Aix-en-court of Appeal. Provence. In September 2022, Lionel Guedj and his father, Jean-Claude Guedj, were respectively sentenced to eight and five years in prison by the Marseille criminal court.
The now 43-year-old ex-dentist, on video from his prison for the delivery of this judgment, is therefore kept in detention. The court of appeal also confirmed the five-year prison sentence handed down at first instance against his father, Jean-Claude Guedj, 71, also a dentist at the time of the events, between 2006 and 2012, who appeared free and was present at the hearing. A committal warrant was issued against him.
The magistrates of the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal, which in this case had moved to the extraordinary trial room of the former Muy barracks, in Marseille, were less severe than the General Advocate, Patrice Ollivier-Maurel. During his requisitions at the end of June, he had in fact requested a ten-year prison sentence against Lionel Guedj, the maximum sentence incurred for these acts.
Confiscations of real estate and vehicles
Incarcerated since September 8, 2022, Lionel Guedj, 43, was found guilty of having devitalized some 3,900 healthy teeth in hundreds of patients, to then install very profitable bridges, with no other motivation than to increase his turnover. business. In five years, he had become the highest paid dentist in France: he drove a Ferrari, earned between 65,000 and 80,000 euros in monthly income and had accumulated assets of 13 million euros.
His father, Jean-Claude, known as “Carnot” Guedj, a dental surgeon at the end of his career, was prosecuted for having lent a hand to his son’s fraud by notably providing “after-sales service to patients who were suffering.” The septuagenarian, presented by the attorney general as “the old fox serving the young wolf”, was released in March after five months of pre-trial detention. A committal warrant having been issued against him, the latter will therefore join his son in prison on Friday.
On the financial side, the court of appeal confirmed the confiscations already ordered by the Marseille criminal court, which targeted real estate, vehicles, a boat, bank accounts and works of art worth just over €2.2 million.