Record entry. 140,000 masks were seized this Saturday in a suburban district of Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), we learned this Sunday from concordant sources. Two individuals were arrested at around 6:00 pm while they were "unloading several boxes to store them in a pavilion," said a police source. An investigation was opened for "concealed work, possession of counterfeit goods and deceptive marketing practices," said the Bobigny prosecution. It was entrusted to territorial security.
The two men, aged 60 and 46, were taken into police custody, the source said. One of them presented himself as a "business owner in the building", explaining having bought these masks, of which around 5,000 are FFP2, in the Netherlands for a total value of 80,000 euros, according to a source policewoman. The goal was to resell them to "acquaintances", construction workers in the construction industry, with "big profits" at the end, she added.
This is the largest seizure of protective masks since the government’s ban on their resale in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
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