The European Court of Human Rights said Thursday that it had rejected an appeal by a French doctor to be reinstated after he was barred from practising for killing terminally-ill patients, a crime for which he was convicted in 2015.
An appeals court handed Nicolas Bonnemaison a suspended two-year sentence for deliberately poisoning an 86-year-old woman shortly after she was admitted to a hospital in the southwestern city of Bayonne, where he worked.
In his filing at the European court, he argued that the council's disciplinary proceedings were not impartial and violated the presumption of innocence. Bonnemaison's emotionally-charged trials gripped the country at the time, with dozens of right-to-die advocates supporting him at the hearings.
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