A celebrity plastic surgeon has gone on trial after two women died when they got injections to make their bottoms bigger.
Dr Reza Samary , 50, is on trial at the Duesseldorf District Court, in the city of Duesseldorf, which is located in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, after two women died when he performed operations in which fat was sucked out of their bodies and reinjected into their bottoms to make them larger.
The surgery is popular with celebrities as it removes fat from undesirable areas like the tummy and moves it to the bottom to give it more volume and shape. Reza Samary charged large fees and was a frequent poster on social media, often posting videos of him operating including the before and after images of the beauty ops he carried out on his Instagram page.
Samary however faces being banned for life and jailed after being accused of assault resulting in death in both cases, and in addition a negligent bodily harm charge in one of the cases. The public prosecutor’s office is demanding he be banned from practising medicine as well as jailed for the deaths.
A first incident took place on 12th June, 2018, when the doctor is alleged to have removed six litres of liquid fat from an unnamed student at his “Royal Center” clinic before injecting 2.2 litres of fat into both of her buttocks, according to German daily Bild. She ended up in hospital and the indictment says that the amount of fat that he sucked out of her was too much. She luckily survived.
But a woman named only as Maria K., 20, due to local privacy laws, died after the doctor allegedly removed 12 litres of liquid from her body on 6th August 2018. She had paid EUR 9,000 (GBP 7,766) for the operation but died of blood loss and a fat embolism.
Samary also operated on an unnamed 42-year-old woman on 2nd July 2019 and according to the prosecutor, there was no anesthesiologist present, which was allegedly a violation of the duty of care, and she died too.
Experts said that she also died of blood loss and of a fat embolism, still according to Bild.
The doctor’s lawyer said during the trial: “The trial will show that the allegations made are not true.”
The trial is scheduled to continue until December and if convicted, Samary faces up to 15 years in prison.