A French patient suffering from serious cancer was stunned to learn recently that he had been granted medical assistance in dying in Switzerland – even though he had never requested it.
“Apparently a doctor issued a certificate […] “Good mental health status with regard to euthanasia in Switzerland,” reported Me Patrick Uzan, the patient’s lawyer, at the request of a “fraudster,” France Live reported on Tuesday.
On September 19, a man whose identity is still unknown appeared before a psychiatrist in Lons-le-Saunier, eastern France, to apply for medical assistance in dying in Switzerland. He posed as a French cancer patient who was in the hospital in the same city.
However, according to the psychiatrist, the man who made the request for euthanasia was “not the same” as the man he later met in the hospital, the lawyer clarified. French media.
For Me Patrick Uzan it is clearly a rare “assassination by identity theft”, while his client insisted that he would never have made such a request despite the seriousness of his illness.
According to France Live, a police report has been filed and the family hopes they can shed light on the motives of the man who allegedly usurped the patient’s identity.