Man in police custody after posing as a doctor

Man in police custody after posing as a doctor - A man posing as a doctor at a hospital in Bordeaux has been placed in police custody. The man had spent the past two weeks at the hospital before being spotted by the security services. The man in his fifties was arrested by the police on Tuesday, pretending to be a doctor. He later acknowledged his actions claiming to police that “he had always wanted to become a doctor”. An investigation has been opened to determine how he had managed to go unnoticed for so long.

 

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