mutilation, fraud, forgery: the trial Dutchman Mark Van Nierop, dubbed the “dentist horror” for mutilating one hundred patients in the Nièvre, opened Tuesday morning before the Criminal Court of Nevers (read also “the dentist horror” in court). puffy face, salt and pepper hair, Jacobus – said Mark – Van Nierop, 51, has scrutinized the room with a worried look as he settled into the box, before staring ahead. Profession? “Dentist” he said in French to the president of the tribunal, Thierry Cellier. Arriving at the courthouse hidden under a blanket, the inmate would not be filmed or photographed before the opening of debate. His lawyer, Delphine Morin-Meneghel, refused to speak to the press.
This highly publicized trial should last until March 18, magistrates considering making their judgment as of this date, reasons of efficiency and because the accused has been detained for already 18 months. A schedule may change. Recruited by a headhunter, Jacobus Van Nierop settled in 2008 in Château-Chinon, in the Morvan, a real medical desert. The arrival of the jolly man with the build of a rugby player does not go unnoticed. A former neighbor remembers seeing him arrive “with a big 4 x 4, a large dog, a big cigar.” In March 2011, the College of dentists filed a complaint for illegal practices, the wife of the practitioner as a dental technician without a diploma. Social Security over from his side of the recurring billing problems.
The pieces of flesh
And the patient complaints start flowing. Boulesteix Sylviane, 65, retired, consult the Dutch in March 2012 for the installation of braces. “It made me seven or eight shots, snatched eight teeth at once and asked sharp device. I was pissing blood. For three days ! “She says. Bernard Hugon, metalworker retired 80 years evokes the uprooting of a root with “pieces of flesh hanging everywhere” and a “huge hole” left gaping. “I made a couple of visits he has counted 117 to Social Security! “It is also the billing” fifteen care “in one visit that casts” doubt “with Nicole Martin, a retired teacher, came to consult initially for repairing a composite.
“Every time he made us what he called a little prick and was asleep, leached, it was half the figure asleep for five or six hours,” said one who had “decayed teeth healthy, teeth torn due to abscess” and was asking a crown “too small.” Early 2013, it is a “dental collective” that will identify a total of 120 victims. At the trial, she said “anxious” to the idea of facing again the dentist, but “do not expect explanations” from him. Among the plaintiffs, Letot Geraldine, 36, hope this trial will enable a “reconstruction.” She had consulted Mr. Van Nierop for a bunt. “A few sessions later, I was thirteen painful teeth,” she says
On June 7, 2013, the dentist is indicted and put on probation and prohibited from leaving the country. But December 26, 2013, his wife reported his disappearance. Fleeing to Canada, he was arrested in September 2014, while attempting to end his life. Extradited to the Netherlands, Van Nierop “said he killed his first wife, he played the madness, he said being transgender … He played all out” to prevent his return to France, where he faces ten years in prison and 150,000 euro fine, says Ms. Martin. For Mr. Joseph Oudin, collective lawyer, this trial should help “understand how we arrived at such behavior,” the explanations of Van Nierop being “non-existent or far-fetched.” In the Netherlands, he had already been disciplined after complaints.
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