The French government has revealed that they have discovered over 110,000 COVID-19 fake health passes being presented by mostly unvaccinated persons in the country.
According to the report by AFP, over 110,000 fraudulent COVID-19 fake health passes copies were discovered and a hundred arrests out of 400 investigations. This Thursday morning, Gérald Darmanin took stock of the issue of fake health passes on the France 2 plateau.
There are 110,000 COVID-19 fake health passes in circulation in France, said the entourage of the Minister of the Interior on Thursday. “There have been more than a hundred arrests out of the 400 investigations which have started to be opened” since the introduction in the summer of the compulsory pass in certain places, indicated in the morning on France 2 the Minister of Interior Gérald Darmanin. These arrests target both users and trafficking networks, says his entourage.
“The problem of fake health passes is that it is often in complicity with real doctors or real nurses”, explained the minister according to whom “it is very difficult to prove”.
COVID-19 fake health passes attract up to 5 years in prison:
Sentences to suspended prison “and sometimes firm prison” have already been handed down, “in particular for pass users”, continued Gérald Darmanin, who underlines that the penalty can be up to 5 years in prison.
At the end of November, a doctor from Val-de-Marne suspected of having sold at least 220 fake health passes was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention. The Minister of the Interior also said he was in favour of dropping the prosecution of people holding a false pass and who would like to comply.