Jeannot Hoareau, founder of the Moscow European Center for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (ECPP)
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French Psychiatrist Seeks Asylum in Russia
Jeannot Hoareau, founder of the Moscow European Center for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (ECPP), was detained in Russia’s capital by request of authorities of France, where he had been sentenced in absence to 15 years. Hoareau claims he is the victim of political persecution and seeks asylum in Russia.
President of the European Hypnosis Association, psychiatrist and psychotherapist Jeannot Hoareau, 56, was detained past Friday in his office at RusTomatis clinic, where he is the head doctor and owner.
Officers of special services, officers of Tver prosecutors and Interpol reps broke into the room when Hoareau was treating a patient. Never minding the patient, enforcement officers handcuffed psychiatrist and drove him off to the prosecutors.
Hoareau was detained under the instruction of French authorities. In May 2005, he was sentenced in absence in Paris for the rape of his patient. In September 1995, the victim said, Hoareau sent her into a trance and then benefited from her helplessness.
The psychiatrist denies accusation, insisting the relations were by bilateral agreement. “Doctor Hoareau thinks he was jailed for reasons of policy,” said his lawyer Igor Trunov. The lawyer said Hoareau is prosecuted for contacts with communists in time of the USSR. The French thought him a spy because of his studies at the medical department of Moscow Friendship University. Hoareau never knew he was the person on trial in Paris as no one notified him about it, the lawyer specified.
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All the Article in Russian as of Apr. 10, 2006
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