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A controversial Italian fertility doctor who won international fame for helping women in their 60s get pregnant has been arrested and accused of taking a patient’s egg without her consent.
Severino Antinori was placed under house arrest after being detained at Rome’s Fiumicino airport on Friday night.
His lawyer told Agence France-Presse the charges were absurd and that the allegations were part of an attempted extortion. The doctor denied the allegations on Sunday.
“I have pains in my chest, I could have had a heart attack,” Antinori, 70, told the AGI news agency. “I am very ill because of this unjustified arrest. Do they want me dead? I am an honest man. I’ve never robbed eggs from anyone and while all this is going on the embryos that have been sequestrated are dying.”
At the heart of the case is a claim by an unidentified Spanish nurse who recently began working in Antinori’s clinic in Milan.
The 24-year-old woman told police she was supposed to be treated in the clinic for an ovarian cyst, but that shortly before receiving treatment...