"Such Letters of Transit could be quite valuable, Rick."
Posted on 07/20/2021 6:46:59 AM PDT by george76
A black market for fake COVID vaccine passes has emerged in France, where the government is trying to make them a mandatory condition of entry for venues like bars, restaurants and cafes.
Clinics in Paris are offering the passes for around €300 euros ($350 dollars) without the need to take any jabs.
“Certain vaccination centres, flagships of the fights against Covid-19 are now plagued by corruption,” reported French newspaper Le Parisien, revealing that low paid French health service workers are making as much as £4,000 a month through selling the fraudulent documents.
In doing so, they are risking 3 years in jail and fines of up to £38,000 for being complicit in the trafficking of forged documents.
“Money was handed over in a curtained-off area of a clinic in the northern Paris suburbs, where the jab was meant to be administered, and placed ‘under the table where the needles and sterile pads are,” reports the Daily Mail.
A spokesman for France’s General Directorate of Health said the Health Ministry said the matter was under serious investigation, with claims that the practice was also taking place at the Sainte-Anne Center, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.
Demand for the fake vaccine passports is surging after the French government announced COVID passes would be mandatory to enter all kinds of venues, including large shopping malls, cinemas, bars, restaurants, cafes and to use public transport.
Macron walked back part of the plan yesterday after the country was hit by unruly protests.
Now COVID passes now only required for malls with a surface area of more than 20,000 square meters.
However, expect the protests to become more volatile over the coming weeks as the system is rolled out in August.
As we previously documented, under the the draconian law, people in France who enter a bar or restaurant without a COVID pass face 6 months in jail, while business owners who fail to check their status face a 1 year prison sentence and a €45,000 fine.
>> low paid French health service workers are making as much as £4,000 a month through selling the fraudulent documents.
So these health services workers are only in it for the money and steady work and not for the betterment of mankind’s health?
I’m sure this is happening in the US, although I haven’t heard of anything.
Finally some good news :)
"Such Letters of Transit could be quite valuable, Rick."
It would not surprise me in the least if these reports of fake covid passes is itself a fake story planted by the French government. This story would then provide an “insurance policy” when the virus, now new and improved thru natural selection by the 1st vaccination, begins to spread even in those venues requiring a covid passport.
The government can claim it is the un-clean with their fake covid passports causing the breakouts. Much like in the U.S. where the unvaccinated are somehow to blame for the variants, without any evidence, and in fact much evidence against.
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Capitalism at work. 😉
This is the kind of thing that makes criminals out of good people. These passports are evil.
The CDC vaccine “proof” is a .pdf you can download and print and fill out yourself.
One presecution of a doctor for selling fake vaxx cards in Cali... about a week ago.
Fake vaccine documents are same as bad checks and counterfeit $20 bills. Even George Floyd had access to them. Easy to get. Very bad when you get caught.
“I’m sure this is happening in the US, although I haven’t heard of anything.”
If it isn’t it will. There will be no lack of buyers.
At it’s core, this is capitalism at it’s best.....overcoming a tyrannical government thru innovation and money...
Gee, I never saw that coming.
Requiring proof of vaccination is racist.
Surprise.......Surprise...Surprise..
Yep. I got two doses of the vax and the CDC card. There is nothing about the card that they gave me that made it any different from a printed piece of card stock.
I laughed when I received my COVID card. There’s nothing secure about it. It’s just a bit of cardboard with your name and date/type of vaccination. There’s no micro-dots, no barcode, no identifying technology - it is a piece of thick paper.
I’ve no idea if this is different elsewhere.
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