The investigation, opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office for forgery and use of forgery, was entrusted to the Brigade for the repression of astute delinquency (BRDA) of the Paris judicial police.
An investigation was opened Friday after the publication of an article in the daily “Le Parisien” in which its authors explain having obtained a fake health pass from an organized network, we learned Monday from police and close sources folder.
The investigation, opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office for forgery and use of forgery, was entrusted to the Brigade for the repression of astute delinquency (BRDA) of the Paris judicial police, according to the two sources.
In the article of December 31 of the “investigation cell” of the “Parisien”, the journalists tell how they were able to obtain, in less than 24 hours and for 200 euros via a prepaid card, a third dose of vaccine without being injected the product and thus extend the validity of a health pass.
182,000 fake health passes were detected by the police
The authors came into contact with a fake pass trafficker via encrypted Telegram messaging. This one, explains the newspaper, did not need to usurp the identity of a doctor, as do other fraudsters, but benefits from the complicity of a practitioner within his family.
According to the newspaper, this network has been working for eight months and “on an industrial scale”, one of the beneficiaries told them.
Some 182,000 fake health passes have been detected by the police since the establishment of the device last summer, as part of 400 investigations, according to the latest report drawn up on December 20 by the Ministry of the Interior.
1000 euros fine
The deputies examine Monday the bill transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass. The text “strengthening the tools for managing the health crisis”, which will pass to the Senate from Wednesday, must come into force on January 15.
If it is adopted, it plans in particular to toughen the sanctions against holders of false passes, who will now be liable to a five-year prison sentence and a 75,000 euro fine, the same sanction as that applicable. to traffickers.
Finally, the fact of presenting a pass belonging to another person and the fact of transmitting a pass to others with a view to its fraudulent use will be punished from the first breach of a fixed fine of 1,000 euros, against 135 euros currently.
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