Europe 1 has slipped into the shoes of a person seeking to acquire a health pass without having to go through double vaccination or a screening test.
Once in contact with a seller, the precious document is obtained in a few hours, sometimes for very large sums of money.
INVESTIGATION
Offers for fake health passes are multiplying on social networks.
The price of these counterfeit sesame varies from 50 to 900 euros, and very often it only takes a few minutes to get one, as Europe 1 has noticed. To do this, we first downloaded the encrypted messaging system. Telegram on a smartphone.
In the search bar, many groups titled "Sanitary Pass" appear.
We picked one at random.
A few minutes later, we are already talking to a seller.
"Four to five requests per day"
The prices offered by this man range from 20 euros for a fake PCR test to 50 euros for a fake health pass.
"I have four to five requests a day," he slips.
"I have an accomplice who is a pharmacist. He will register you in the database, as if you had really done the test. In no time, you can have your PCR test or a vaccination certificate", explains this further. seller.
It is often people who go on vacation who request it.
He claims not to be anti-vaccine, and to do so only to earn a little money.
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Endangering the life of others
At the Lille vaccination center, the concern mainly relates to false positive PCR tests.
People make believe that they have been infected thanks to a false document in order to receive only one dose of vaccine.
The objective is to obtain the sanitary pass more quickly by avoiding the waiting period before the second dose.
"The risk of trying to tamper with is having a person who will be contaminated, and who may contaminate other people", alert to Europe 1 Bernard Bailleux, coordinating doctor.
And in this case, it is an offense of endangering the life of others, punishable by one year in prison and 15,000 euros in fines.