Belgian justice facing the “most serious” fraud to date in its management of the country's pandemic?

Investigators suspect a Belgian doctor of having recorded false anti-Covid vaccinations.

This practitioner from the French-speaking part of Belgium would have offered his services "to the four corners of Wallonia", sometimes by being paid for injections that did not take place.

The objective was to provide the patient with a health pass allowing him to escape the restrictions in force.

"It is a vaccination fraud on the part of a doctor who has encoded an astronomical number of people he would have vaccinated (...) 2,000 people in total", said Tuesday at the microphone of the RTBF Christie Morreale, minister of Health in the Walloon region.

According to her, it's impossible that a single doctor could have vaccinated so many people in so many different places.

The doctor could be struck off

Justice and the order of physicians have been seized of the case, and this general practitioner has already been deprived of access to the database which centralizes vaccinations.

An investigating judge of the court of first instance of Hainaut (south) was seized of an investigation for "forgery" and "computer fraud", specified Vincent Fiasse, prosecutor in Charleroi.

The only incrimination of "forgery" can be worth up to five years of imprisonment.

“Doctors need to be aware that society trusts them.

They must write medical certificates with objectivity and sincerity ”, for his part declared on television Benoît Dejemeppe, president of the National Council of the Order of Physicians.

"Everything will depend on the circumstances but the sanction can go as far as delisting," he added.

The health pass for suspended customers

As for the people who benefited from the fraud, they are also liable to prosecution, said the minister, Christie Morreale. Initially, their health pass (or "Covid Safe Ticket" in Belgium) was "suspended" and they will be contacted to be offered a vaccination in due form. "We realized on anti-tax sites that there were calls to buy false certificates", some giving access to false vaccinations (to be in contact with the doctor recording the act), also explained this socialist leader of the regional government of former Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo.

"This is the most important and the most serious anomaly, it is an extremely dangerous act, (...) a breach of confidence", she insisted, stressing that these "false vaccinated" expose their social contacts. to disease.

The judicial investigation was opened after a complaint with the constitution of civil party of Aviq, the administration which manages the vaccine platform in Wallonia.

Explosion of cases in Belgium

These facts are revealed at a time when Belgium is experiencing an explosion of new contaminations (more than 15,000 on average each day against 2,000 around six weeks ago), leading to a new overload of hospitals.

In addition, as elsewhere in Europe, the polarization is increasingly strong between vaccinated (75% of Belgians are completely) and non-vaccinated presenting themselves as defenders of "freedom".

On Sunday, a pro “freedom” demonstration brought together 35,000 people in Brussels according to the police.

It degenerated into clashes with the police.

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