‘Touching, forced kisses, insults”: Is the emergency doctor at the Ducuing hospital in Toulouse a ‘Dr Mabuse’? Doctor Abdelhalim H. goes on trial in Toulouse on Tuesday, the 3rd of September 2024. Seven patients are accusing him of sexual assault in the course of his professional activities. (…)
We are in the spring of 2020 and Sylviane* has been treated at the Joseph Ducuing hospital after suffering a concussion. She told the police about the inappropriate behaviour of the doctor at the facility who examined her: ‘He held me in his arms, touched my private parts and then came to my house.’ Isolated act or unhealthy habit? The investigators quickly form their own opinion.
A few days later, Imane, who had also come to file a complaint, described a strangely similar scenario. The emergency doctor Abdelhalim H. stroked her thigh while explaining to her mother that her dress was not compliant during Ramadan. An investigation is launched and more complaints follow: Cathy, who is listened to, speaks of her nipples ‘which he touched’; there is also this young transgender man whose buttocks are groped by the practitioner. Or Malika, whose breasts the doctor ‘palpated for minutes’ before rubbing her abdomen.
In police custody and at the hearings before the investigating judge, the defendant denies or trivialises everything. In his opinion, the plaintiffs partly lied and partly misinterpreted purely medical measures. (…)
Most of the victims came to the emergency room at night because they had recently suffered pain or trauma, which left them in a weak position in relation to the authority figure embodied by the doctor.
He was finally convicted on April 1, 2021 of sexual harassment ‘ committed by a person who abuses the authority conferred on him by his function’, the incident having occurred in Villefranche-de-Rouergue in 2015. The court in Carcassonne also convicted him in 2012 for harassment to obtain sexual favours. These incidents were not considered by the Languedoc-Roussillon Medical Council to be grounds for appropriate punishment. (…)
When questioned as part of the judicial enquiry opened in Toulouse on December 17, 2020, the management of the Ducuing hospital confirmed internal proceedings against Abdelhalim H., none of which had led to a sanction. (…) The now 65-year-old doctor was the only emergency doctor to take on numerous shifts, including at night (…). La Dépêche
Muslims have been raping non muslim women from the times of mo-ham-mad ,so its not some thing new.