The hearing before the Eure departmental criminal court opened behind closed doors on Wednesday morning. For three days, the court will try Mohamad Mansour, 63, an anesthesiologist and intensive care physician at the Pasteur clinic in Évreux, accused of raping two patients and sexually assaulting a third during a single day of consultations on June 18, 2020. The verdict is expected on Friday.
The alleged incidents follow a similar pattern: after asking general questions, the doctor reportedly veered into intimate inquiries before using a medical risk as a pretext to perform a non-consensual gynecological examination, without gloves, on patients who had come for a consultation prior to surgery. One of them, Emma, 35, testified: "He put his fingers inside my vagina, he wasn't wearing gloves, he was looking at the ceiling as if he were really examining me."
Stripped of his professional status and suspended throughout the country, he appears in court as a free man.
The practitioner has since been struck off by the Medical Council and suspended throughout the national territory by the Regional Health Agency of Normandy in June 2025. These administrative sanctions, which came five years after the events, did not prevent him from appearing in court as a free man.
He faces twenty years in prison. The case is part of a judicial and legislative context in which sexual violence committed in the medical field is receiving increasing attention, following several scandals that have highlighted the flaws in the control exercised over healthcare professionals.
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