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“Hello, it’s Fraud Repression”: how the origin of products is controlled in the supermarket

2024-02-14T06:09:18.970Z

Highlights: The government has announced 10,000 checks this year. The operation aimed at possible "francization" practices. This scheme consists of deceiving the customer by displaying a French origin, when the product does not. It is aimed at deceiving people into thinking that a product is of French origin when it is not, says the DGCCRF. The investigation was carried out by the French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) and the German news agency Deutsche Presse (DPR)


While the government has announced 10,000 checks this year, this Tuesday we followed a Fraud Repression team who came in


“Hello, Madam, it’s Fraud Repression, can you notify the director?”

» The receptionist picks up her phone.

It is not 11 a.m. this Tuesday, February 13 in the morning, and the aisles of this hypermarket near Dax (Landes) are still sparse.

Notifying the journalists who are escorting the inspectors from the General Directorate for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control DGCCRF, a security guard laughs: “Are we going to be on TV?

» The store manager smiles less frankly, but resigns himself.

“We have nothing to hide, go ahead,” he says.

In the wake of the trio of controllers, we navigate to the fruit and vegetable stalls.

Subject to not revealing the name of the brand, we were able to follow this operation aimed at possible "francization" practices, this scheme which consists of deceiving the customer by displaying a French origin, when the product does not. is not.

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Source: leparis

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