Bordeaux (AFP)
A 19-year-old woman, who worked at the largest vaccination center in Bordeaux, in the south-west of France, was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison suspended for having published about twenty fake health passes for the benefit of relatives to which she wanted to be of service.
The Bordeaux Criminal Court which tried her also sentenced her to ineligibility for two years and to a five-year ban on public employment.
Arrested Monday after the report of a firefighter and a police investigation, the young contract worker who had been employed since September 1 in this center admitted to having participated in the counterfeiting of 24 fake health passes for the benefit of 16 people.
"I did anything," admitted the young woman at the helm, denying that she had acted for money.
"I do not believe that this was done without financial compensation", on the contrary estimated the public prosecutor.
By exploiting Samia G.'s phone, the police found vital cards, identity cards and around fifteen QR codes, produced without great care, sometimes with gross inconsistencies such as limitation dates which could be later than the dates. injection of vaccines.
Before her judges, this woman, who has been working since she was 16, explained that she only wanted to serve friends, family or close friends, people "who did not want to be vaccinated", according to her .
"I wanted to go out with them (his friends) to the movies, to the restaurant," she said.
The alert was given on Sunday by a fire doctor from the vaccination center who had notably noticed computer connections when the center was empty of any patient.
The investigation continues concerning the beneficiaries of the false documents, but also to verify the existence of possible other frauds.
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