A former general practitioner, tried for rape and sexual assault on several patients, was sentenced Friday to 11 years of criminal imprisonment with a committal warrant by the criminal court of Châteauroux (Indre).
The court imposed Jacques Olsina's sentence in particular with a fine of 10,000 euros and a definitive ban on practicing medicine. The 24 victims are mainly women placed under guardianship. For Sébastien Robin, one of the lawyers for two complainants who have become civil parties, "it is not certain that all the victims are present", the investigators "having apparently not managed to go back before 2010-2011".
“Unbearable” videos found during searches
The case started following the report of a legal representative of one of the victims, in 2020. During their hearings, the victims spoke of touching the former general practitioner on the chest and genitals during medical examinations, between December 2013 and December 2020. One of the women reported a rape, of which investigators found a trace of the video.
During searches of the medical office, investigators discovered in the computer equipment compromising videos of patients, filmed without their knowledge, with a mobile phone during the medical consultation. These videos are “particularly unbearable”, according to Sébastien Robin.
Psychologically fragile patients
The general practitioner asked his patients, who presented a certain psychological fragility, to masturbate or take explicit positions even though the appointment was not suitable for this, according to a judicial source. “In the minds of these women it was: It’s the doctor who is asking so if he asks it means it must be done,” explained Master Robin.
“We are close to disgust,” declared Christel Jousse, one of the lawyers for the civil party.
For Maître Alexia Augereau, “the victims needed to understand his actions and this request was not really met”. “The accused recognized the facts superficially, he had not done any introspection,” she continued. “He feels extremely guilty, he is ashamed and still does not understand how he could have done that,” assured the former doctor’s lawyer Pascaline Courthes.
Furthermore, the criminal court will examine the victims' requests for reparations on November 15. According to a judicial source, the former doctor has since been disbarred by the Order of Physicians at his request.