Dentist of Horror' in French court

Dentist of Horror' in French court, A Dutch man declared by media as the "Dentist of Horror" has gone on balloon in France accused of mutilating the mouths of added than 100 patients.

Jacobus van Nierop allegedly took out advantageous teeth and acquired alarming injuries to dozens of patients in a limited French town.

He faces advance and artifice accuse and up to 10 years in bastille if convicted.

Mr van Nierop fled to Canada if suspicions arose and acerb fought adjoin displacement to France in 2014.

Correspondents say that while he is not answerable to action a appeal beneath French law, Mr van Nierop has ahead argued that he suffers from "psychological problems" including gender appearance issues and baleful thoughts.

The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says that Mr van Nierop was abounding people's affliction nightmare.

Like abounding locations of rural France, the baby boondocks of Chateau-Chinon is abominably served for medical provision, our contributor adds.

Initially locals seemed captivated by the aggressive and smiley dentist, a larger-than-life appearance who assemblage said was rarely apparent afterwards his "big 4x4, a big dog and a big cigar".

But again the abhorrence belief began. People said they had teeth ripped out for no acumen - they were accustomed abundant anaesthetic, again larboard with abscesses and adulterated gums.

Fillings were pulled out artlessly to be replaced by added big-ticket blended and some said their mouths bled for days.

Lawyer Charles-Joseph Oudin represents some of Mr Van Nierop's declared victims - he said they capital answers.

"We aboriginal achievement to accept some explanations, to... accept how Mr Van Nierop has been able to behave in such a way for so long, how things became so serious," he said.

The adventure of declared victim Sylviane Boulesteix, 65, is archetypal of the allegations fabricated adjoin the dentist.

She visited him in March 2012 to accept braces fitted. "He gave me seven or eight injections, and pulled out eight teeth in one go. I was blubbering claret for three days," she told the AFP account agency.

Another declared macho victim, 80, told AFP that the dentist larboard "pieces of beef blind everywhere" afterwards removing a tooth.

By aboriginal 2013 a accumulation of Mr van Nierop's declared victims had developed to 120 associates and in June of that year he was arrested. But the dentist fled France afore the alpha of his balloon the afterward December.

He was eventually amid in a baby boondocks in the Canadian arena of New Brunswick and was arrested beneath an all-embracing warrant.

Mr van Nierop - who has after been bedfast in France for 18 months - is aswell accused of ambidexterity patients and allowance companies.
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