The date of birth indicates that he is 25 years old.
However, the man who hands him the document is so old that he can hardly walk.
"It's not you, that!"
Simon told him.
Like him, 90 Civil Protection rescuers are mobilized, in support of regional health agencies, at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport (Val-d'Oise).
In addition to carrying out screenings, they are responsible for verifying the test certificates of passengers arriving from international flights.
Bobards in series, denied with disconcerting aplomb, even in the face of the obvious ... "They have a nerve", laughs Simon.
If their mission of "sanitary control" turns to vaudeville, it is also because the fakes can be very rude.
The font is sometimes so irregular that the text looks like an accordion.
On some pages, only the first and last names and date of birth are clear.
Others have miscalculated their shot and present a test certificate from which the sample would have been taken after take-off!
The amateurism of fraudsters is such that it becomes laughable.
As with this woman who comes from Algeria.
Simon ticks: "Madam, how long did you stay there?"
"She:" Three weeks, why?
»« Your test was done in Bordeaux three days ago.
"They cheat on everything," he says.
And yet these travelers managed to embark and land in France.
Negative ... even though she had the Covid
Many countries are already using QR codes, a secure method that is supposed to link to the test result. But when flashed, inconsistencies arise. By scanning that of a traveler arriving from Africa, Virginie Bidault de l'Isle did not expect to come across the Internet page of Monsieur Bricolage in Moulins, in Allier. “But hey, it's a store! Exclaimed this Civil Protection project manager, who works in the Roissy Covid screening centers. Worse, the QR code presented by this woman did refer to her results. Except that they indicated, unlike the paper version, "positive" in scarlet red. "She had made up her certificate to appear negative when she had the Covid", Simon is still surprised.
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In case of doubt, travelers go through the screening box on the ground floor of the airport.
As for the police, they can sanction the free riders with a fine of 135 euros and place them in police custody.
Two months ago, a dozen fakes were detected every day, a figure that would have declined since the strengthening of controls.
For many, these grotesque copies are the means of escaping an expensive passage in an analysis laboratory.
If they are free in France, they can cost up to several hundred euros abroad.
One day, while checking one of them, Thibaut, also a rescuer, thought he had misread.
The logo of a lab had been replaced by that of ... a gas station!