Three men were placed in police custody Thursday in Maisons-Alfort (Val-de-Marne), suspected of having tried to resell nearly 40,000 expired masks in the midst of an epidemic caused by the new coronavirus, we learned from of the parquet floor of Créteil. These three men, aged 28, 21 and 20 years and from the Parisian suburbs for two of them, were arrested Thursday morning by the police, said this source confirming information from the Parisian .
It was a neighbor who earlier in the morning had alerted the police, intrigued by the "incessant" round trips of these young people between the trash can of his building and their truck parked in the street. Once the police are there, they discover, in the garbage room, several boxes containing thousands of masks, all expired. "Using dissolvents, they were trying to erase the expiration date so that they could be sold on the unit," said a source close to the file.
At least 8,300 masks have been stolen from establishments of the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)
How did they get the masks? Is there a network behind these three men? "The hearings are in progress," said the prosecution. As the epidemic of the new coronavirus intensifies in France, the mask has become an object of lust.
At least 8,300 masks were stolen from establishments of the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP). In Marseille, 2,000 were stolen from the Conception Hospital. Tuesday, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron had announced that in order to avoid a shortage, the State would requisition "all stocks and the production of protective masks" to distribute them to carers and people with coronavirus.
In France, six people died after being infected with the coronavirus and 92 new cases of positive patients were identified compared to Wednesday, said Thursday the Ministry of Health.