The bill introducing the vaccinal pass provides hardening of sanctions for the holding of false passage or its fraudulent use.
Le Monde with AFP
The exchanges resumed, slowly but surely, Tuesday, January 4, in the hemicycle of the National Assembly on the text introducing the vaccinal pass. In particular, the bill provides hardening of penalties for the holding of a false pass.
In the afternoon, during the session of the questions to the government, Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, announced that the police had uncovered “192 483 false sanitary passes at 30 December “. He further added that the police had carried out on December 30, “1,919 verbalizations” concerning his passenger pass to a third party. On December 20, the Ministry of the Interior had reported 182,000 false passes.
From now on, the holding of a false pass will be punishable by five years imprisonment and € 75,000. Present a pass belonging to others or transmit to another pass for fraudulent use will be punished with a lump sum fine of 1,000 euros, against 135 euros today. The government has filed an amendment on “repentance”: persons with false passes will not have a sanction if they are injecting a first dose of vaccine within thirty days of the Offense Commission.
More than 400 surveys opened by justice
The Minister of the Interior has also clarified that 435 investigations had been opened by justice. Thus, after the publication on December 31 of a daily article The Parisian in which Its authors explain to obtain a false sanitary pass from an organized network, the parquet of Paris has announced the opening of an investigation for “false and false use”, entrusted to the repression brigade of clever delinquency (BRDR ) of the Parisian judicial police.
In the article of the “Survey Cell” of the Parisian, the journalists tell how they were able to get, in less than twenty-four hours and for 200 euros on a prepaid card, a third dose of vaccine without being injected The product and thus extend the validity of a sanitary pass.
The authors have come in contact with a false trafficker by the Encrypted Telegram messaging. This one, explains the newspaper, did not need to usurp the identity of a doctor, as other fraudsters, but benefits from the complicity of a practitioner in his family. According to the newspaper, this network has been working for eight months and “industrially”, affirmed their beneficiaries.