Defective Breast Implant Sales Draw Prison Term for French Executive - NYTimes.com

Defective Breast Implant Sales Draw Prison Term for French Executive - NYTimes.com

PARIS — A court in Marseille, France, sentenced the founder of a French company on Tuesday to four years in prison for selling hundreds of thousands of defective breast implants in more than 65 countries.

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'Sorcerer's apprentice of implants' jailed - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

'Sorcerer's apprentice of implants' jailed - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Judgment at trial PIP. Prostheses contained a huge dose of cynicism sticky | I do think that it

Judgment at trial PIP. Prostheses contained a huge dose of cynicism sticky | I do think that it

NEWS NEWS NEWS. Whatever the judgment was given at trial of those responsible for the marketing of PIP breast implants, this case will leave a terrible memory. During the hearings, there has been an express, with a chilling cynicism, the deepest contempt for women and women's bodies. In addition, for 4113 the plaintiffs, the Battle of the compensation is just beginning. Indeed, Jean-Claude Mas, former head of Poly Implant Prosthesis (PIP) - who was sentenced to 4 years in prison and a 75,000 euro fine - and four other defendants who were put on sale prostheses filled with an unapproved gel, are not creditworthy ...

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Many women who are re-breasts "are not good about themselves," they are "fragile", as the complainants "they want money," declared April 17 Jean-Claude Mas, the director of the company Poly Implants Prostheses (PIP) at the first hearing of his trial before the criminal chamber sixth Marseille

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Faulty breast implants fraud trial: Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) boss Jean-Claude Mas is jailed for four years - Mirror Online

Founder of faulty breast implants firm PIP is jailed for four years in France

10 Dec 2013 20:42

An estimated 47,000 British women had been given implants containing industrial-grade silicone made by Poly Implant Prothese boss Jean-Claude Mas

The founder of a French firm that made dodgy breast implants used by 47,000 British women was today jailed for four years.

Poly Implant Prothese boss Jean-Claude Mas, 74, was convicted of aggravated fraud after using industrial-grade silicone in implants that were sold worldwide.

Mas, dubbed “the sorcerer’s apprentice of implants” by prosecutors, plans to appeal, his lawyer said.

Four other ex-PIP staff were also convicted in Marseille and given lesser sentences.

The scandal first broke in 2010 when doctors noticed abnormally high rupture rates in PIP implants.

Aglobal health scare erupted with some 300,000 women in 65 countries believed to have received the faulty implants.

Mas was also ordered to pay a £63,000 fine and has been permanently banned from working in medical services or running a company.

Isabelle Traeger, who received a PIP implant and attended the trial, said four years in prison was not enough.

She said: “They explained what was in them [the implants]. Inflammable substances, substances to make your car work, and that at a certain point they said to the engineer who made them, ‘How did you make them? How did you mix together these substances?’ And he said, ‘You use your best guess’.

“Can you imagine? It’s a matter of chance. A dollop more, a bit more, a bit less. And he’ll get four years for that? For what is put in your body using one’s best guess. We don’t even give horses their food according to a ‘best guess’.”

With over 7,000 women registered as plaintiffs, the trial was one of France’s biggest ever legal cases.

The defendants admitted using the industrial-grade silicone but denied the company’s implants posed any health risks.

More than 7,500 women worldwide have reported ruptures in the implants and in France alone 15,000 have had the PIP implants replaced.

But health officials in various countries have said they are not toxic and do not increase the risk of breast cancer.

UK health chiefs said there was no need for routine removal - but later agreed to replace the implants to put women’s minds at rest.

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PIP breast implant founder sentenced to four years - Telegraph

PIP breast implant founder sentenced to four years - Telegraph
Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of PIP, the French firm at the centre of a global scandal over defective breast implants, was yesterday found guilty of fraud and sentenced to four years in prison.

Four other former executives were also convicted and given lesser sentences — from 18 months to three years — after one of the biggest trials ever seen in France.

Cheers erupted in the courtroom in Marseille, southern France this morning from around 50 women present out of at total of 7,113 civil plaintiffs, with one slamming Mr Mas as being “disdainful, arrogant and odious” throughout the proceedings.

The 74-year-old, who says he is insolvent, was also ordered to compensate more than 4,000 plaintiffs up to 13,000 euros (£11,000) each for the anxiety he had caused them and, in some cases, the physical trauma of having the implants removed.

Jan Spivey, one of around 150 British plaintiffs from an estimated 47,000 Britons with PIP implants, was present in Marseille for the verdict.

She said: “I’m delighted that the victims have finally received recognition for very a serious crime against women.”

“During the trial Mr Mas described a number of women using his implants as 'fragile’. That, I believe is possibly true, as these are women with children, with families, some are recovering from cancer. It only makes his crime all the more appalling,” she told The Telegraph.

However, she and other plaintiffs were unhappy that he was allowed to walk free pending an appeal.

Doubts about breast implants sold by Poly Implant Prothese, or PIP, first emerged in 2010 after doctors noticed abnormally high rupture rates.

They were subsequently found to contain industrial-grade silicone gel unfit for human use, sparking an international scandal believed to have affected more than 300,000 women in 65 countries.

PIP hid evidence of the non-medical silicone during visits by European inspectors who approved the implants. Use of the illegal silicone saved the company 1 million euros a year as it cost five euros a litre — seven times cheaper than standard gel.

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Jail for faulty breast implant boss

Jail for faulty breast implant boss 
Dec 10 - In one of France's biggest ever trials, PIP boss Jean Claude Mas and four colleagues have been sentenced to jail for selling faulty breast implants. The ensuing health scare affected an estimated 300,000 women. David Pollard reports.

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JUDGEMENT EXPECTED IN PIP BREAST IMPLANT TRIAL

Judgement expected in PIP breast implant trial

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A court in Marseille is expected to deliver its verdict today in the case against Jean-Claude Mas - the head of a French company accused of selling 300,000 faulty PIP breast implants.

Mas, along with other former bosses at Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), is accused of aggravated fraud for using industrial-grade silicone in the implants.

An estimated 300,000 women have been given the implants worldwide, including around 47,000 in the UK. French authorities took all the implants off the market in March 2010 after concerns were raised.


Health authorities in France and elsewhere have stressed that PIP's products carry no proven link to cancer, but surgeons report that they have abnormally high rupture rates.

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Faulty PIP Breast Impants Case Ruling Due

Faulty PIP Breast Impants Case Ruling Due

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What sanctions after the scandal PIP implants? | Minutes PIP | Var-Matin

What sanctions after the scandal PIP implants? | Minutes PIP | Var-Matin

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Judgment at trial PIP on Tuesday: "I want to hear the word guilty" - Society - MYTF1News

Judgment at trial PIP on Tuesday: "I want to hear the word guilty" - Society - MYTF1News

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The Criminal Court Tuesday Marseille makes its judgment in the case of breast implants PIP. Jean-Claude Mas, founder of the Var business risk four years in prison. Provide victims to call "if the penalties are not heavy enough."

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Jean-Claude Mas learn his fate Tuesday

Jean-Claude Mas learn his fate Tuesday

Criminal Court must give judgment Marseille on Tuesday at 10am in the case of breast implants. Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of the PIP company that manufactured these prostheses, will learn his fate. The prosecution had requested four years in prison for his arrest
After the Commercial Court of Toulon which recognized the responsibility of TÜV certification in the case of defective prostheses, it is the turn of Marseille Criminal Justice to rule Tuesday on the responsibility of PIP leaders , including its founder, Jean -Claude Mas. 

This long-awaited decision in this case for "aggravated deception" and "fraud" , which mobilized from April 17 to May 17 more than 300 lawyers and nearly 400 victims in a room of over 4,000 m2 leased for circumstances, is only the first part of this criminal case drawers. Two other cases are still under investigation, one for "involuntary injury ", another for "fraudulent bankruptcy and money . "

Another open file for "manslaughter and injuries"

Parallel to this first case handled by the preliminary prosecutor of Marseilles, a judicial investigation against X for " injury and manslaughter "  was opened in December 2011, after the death from cancer of a carrier in 2010 in the Gers . The instruction will be long, this part, informed by the Annaïck Le Goff JA, now comprising some 5,000 plaintiffs. The court of Aix-en-Provence appeal has ruled admissible the complaints of women who have not been out of their implants on the grounds of prejudice anxiety. M. Mas, his ex-CEO, Claude Couty, and three executives are indicted for " injury "and the status of assisted witness for the head of" manslaughter 
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Jean-Claude Mas learn his fate Tuesday - France 3 Provence-Alpes

Jean-Claude Mas learn his fate Tuesday - France 3 Provence-Alpes

Jean-Claude Mas learn his fate Tuesday

Criminal Court must give judgment Marseille on Tuesday at 10am in the case of breast implants.Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of the PIP company that manufactured these prostheses, will learn his fate. The prosecution had requested four years in prison for his arrest

After the Commercial Court of Toulon which recognized the responsibility of TÜV certification in the case of defective prostheses, it is the turn of Marseille Criminal Justice to rule Tuesday on the responsibility of PIP leaders , including its founder, Jean -Claude Mas. 

This long-awaited decision in this case for "aggravated deception" and "fraud" , which mobilized from April 17 to May 17 more than 300 lawyers and nearly 400 victims in a room of over 4,000 m2 leased for circumstances, is only the first part of this criminal case drawers. Two other cases are still under investigation, one for "involuntary injury ", another for "fraudulent bankruptcy and money . "

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Files for the PIP implant trial are pictured inside the courtroom in Marseille | View photo - Yahoo News Philippines

Files for the PIP implant trial are pictured inside the courtroom in Marseille | View photo - Yahoo News Philippines

Files for the PIP implant trial are pictured inside the courtroom in Marseille December 9, 2013. The court will announce its verdict Tuesday in the high profile fraud case over substandard French breast implants that stoked a global health scare, with over 5,000 plaintiffs, 300 lawyers and five defendants taking part in the trial. More than 300,000 women around the world bought breast implants over a decade from French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), whose founder has admitted filling them with a homemade recipe using industrial-grade silicone gel. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier

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CRIMINAL TRIAL : The Verdict!

CRIMINAL TRIAL : The Verdict! 

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10 December 2013 :JC Mas and the Directors of PIP will face the judges ruling on charges of Aggravated Fraud & Deceit.

The outcome of the trial will be WORLD NEWS and very important to US!

The court is in Marseille and Louise Rose Smith and Jan Spivey plan to be there, hopefully Tracey Ahmet & Elizabeth Cathey will be there too along with women of almost every nationality also affected by PIP.

For them, for us, for all our families... please join in, show your support and 

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