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Spanish police nabs French plastic surgeon wanted by Paris
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-08-20 11:07

MADRID -- The Spanish police Tuesday arrested French plastic surgeon Michel Maure, who had been at large after being charged with disfiguring and endangering the lives of 96 women in France.

Maure, 59, was detained in Empuriabrava of the northeastern Spanish province of Girona, said the police.

He was sent to the Roses police station in Girona where he would be waiting for his extradition to France.

Maure, the self-styled "the best (doctor) in plastic surgery in the world," was arrested in France in 2004 on charges of false advertising, cheating and causing the deformity to 96 of his patients as a result of his surgery operations from 1990 to 2004.

The French prosecutor has demanded a four-year imprisonment and a fine of about some 75,000 euros ($111,000) against Maure.

Maure, whose movement was restricted during the trial, went missing in July, two months before his verdict due in September.

The French police issued an arrest warrant against Maure and intensified the contact with their Spanish counterparts to track the fugitive as they were convinced that he was hiding in Spain.