The media cosmetic surgeon Sydney Ohana indicted for rape and sexual assault on patients – Liberation
Three women filed a complaint for rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment against one of the best known faces of French cosmetic surgery, according to information from Parisian. Contacted by Releasethe Paris prosecutor’s office indicates that Sydney Ohana was indicted on March 28 « Heads of rapes likely to have been committed between October and November 2017, sexual assault likely to have been committed in November 2023 and sexual harassment committed in September 2023 ».
The septuagenarian was also placed under judicial supervision. In particular, it has the ban on exercising as a cosmetic surgeon, to get in touch with the complainants and to get out of the metropolitan territory. As such, he had to hand over his passport. The complete prosecution, indicating that « Two of his patients had filed a complaint in 2023, denouncing facts that occurred in 2017 and 2023 ».
According to our colleagues from Parisianthe plastic surgeon accustomed to TV sets, especially that of fire the show Touche not at my post presented by Cyril Hanounais implicated by two patients and a professional in medicine. According to the daily, a first complaint was filed against him at the time of 2023 for facts dating back to 2017. The first complainant, a patient, explains that she was raped by Sydney Ohana in her Eiffel-Carré d´Or clinic (16th arrondissement of Paris) and at her home three times.
Still according to the Parisian, Investigators from the 3rd Judicial Police District (DPJ) in charge of the case heard several witnesses and close to the surgeon, especially during 2023. It was during this same period that new victims are known, according to our colleagues. The second complainant, a professional in the medical world, would have been the victim of insistent sexual intercourse proposals and an attempted sexual exhibition on the part of Ohana during a conference in the fall of 2023.
The third complainant, a patient, would have told investigators that she had sexual assault on the sidelines of hair transplant. According to The Parisian,, « Doctor Ohana would have had displaced gestures and stroked the breasts of the one he had just operated ». The newspaper also quotes a source of the world of plastic surgery which notes the « feeling of superiority « of Ohana, who « Openly flirts with her patients ».
