France's Council of State upheld Tuesday the decision by the French Order of Doctors to dismiss mercy-killing Dr Bonnemaison, forbidding him to practise medicine, reports RFI.
He was acquitted last June over accusations of “poisoning” seven patients.
The Council of State rejected Dr Nicolas Bonnemaison’s appeal against the decision by the Order of Doctors to dismiss him, stating that the law “forbids from deliberately causing death”.
Acquitted on 25 June, Bonnemaison had been formally removed from the Order on 1 July.
The decision had been taken on 15 April by the disciplinary Chamber of the Order which had judged that “the gravity” of his acts justified this dismissal.
The Chamber had relied on the French Public Health Code which “forbids a doctor from deliberately causing death”.