January 10, 1970 - Christine Malèvre
Malèvre's case became a focal point in French public debate over euthanasia and the boundaries of medical authority, arriving at a moment when the legal and ethical frameworks around end-of-life care were deeply unsettled. Her claim that patients had consented to their deaths complicated both the prosecution and the broader conversation, making it difficult to fit her actions into existing categories of criminal intent. The scale alleged — up to thirty deaths — distinguished her case from isolated incidents and raised questions about institutional oversight within hospital settings.
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Christine Malèvre (born 10 January 1970) is a former nurse who was arrested in 1998 on suspicion of having killed as many as 30 patients. She confessed to some of the murders, but claimed she had done so at the request of the patients, who were all terminally ill. France, however, does not recognize a right to die, and Malèvre eventually recanted most of her confessions. The families of several of her victims strongly denied that their relatives had expressed any will to die, much less asked Malèvre to kill them.
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