a surgeon tries to sell an X-ray of a wounded Bataclan

According to Mediapart, this renowned orthopedic surgeon, Emmanuel Masmejean, auctioned on OpenSea, a site specializing in the sale of NFT digital objects, the radio of a Bataclan survivor that he had operated on, on which we see a front -arm pierced by a Kalashnikov bullet. According to the investigative site, the radio was on sale for the sum of 2,776 dollars.

The surgeon acknowledged the facts to Mediapart, explaining that he had done so “in an educational vocation“and has since withdrawn the offering, but not the snap still visible on OpenSea on Sunday. Assurant”to have posed the question from an ethical point of view“, He recongnizes “the mistake“for not having asked permission from the operated patient.

Below the photo, the doctor specifies that “this young patient, who lost her boyfriend in this attack, had an open fracture of the left forearm with a remaining Kalashnikov bullet in the soft tissues“.

While the trial of the November 2015 attacks is currently taking place in Paris, Martin Hirsch believes that this “obnoxious behavior” is “contrary to ethics, calling into question medical secrecy, going once morest the values ​​of the AP-HP and the public service“.

He announces his intention to report the facts to justice (in application of article 40 of the code of criminal procedure which requires each official having knowledge of an illegal act to denounce it), and to seize the council of the Order as well as “Ministers with disciplinary power“.

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