Surgeon faces legal action for trying to sell Bataclan victim X-ray as NFT

Surgeon said attempted sale of image showing forearm containing a Kalashnikov bullet without patient consent was ‘an error’

A senior French surgeon faces legal action and a possible disciplinary charge after attempting to sell an X-ray of a concert-goer who was shot during the 2015 attack on the Bataclan music hall in Paris.

Orthopaedic surgeon Emmanuel Masmejean, who practises at the Georges Pompidou public hospital in south-west Paris, was first reported by the Mediapart website on Saturday to be selling an image of the X-Ray as a digital artwork, without the patient’s consent.