An emergency room doctor in France who was convicted of poisoning a terminally ill patient has attempted to kill himself, sources close to the case said Saturday, reports Yahoo! News.
Nicolas Bonnemaison, 54, was found on Saturday morning slumped in a vehicle in the village of Tosse in southwestern France after apparently taking medication.
He was transported by helicopter to a hospital in nearby Bordeaux, where one source said his condition was stabilising.
On October 24, an appeals court in the western city of Angers handed Bonnemaison a two-year suspended sentence for killing a patient, an 86-year-old woman.
But it backed a lower court ruling that had acquitted him last year of the poisoning deaths of six other terminally ill patients.
In an emotionally charged trial that gripped a country where euthanasia is illegal, Bonnemaison was accused of "poisoning particularly vulnerable people" -- five women and two men who died between March 2010 and July 2011 soon after being admitted to the hospital in the southwestern city of Bayonne where he worked.