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A woman in a vaccination center in France checks the contact details of those willing to vaccinate (symbolic image)
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A young woman has been sentenced to a suspended sentence in France for forging corona health passports.
The 19-year-old employee of a vaccination center in Bordeaux in southwest France confessed to having issued 24 fake health passports to relatives.
She was sentenced to a year and a half suspended.
A paramedic from the fire brigade reported the young woman, who had only been working in the vaccination center since the beginning of September.
When evaluating the woman's phone, the police found health insurance cards, ID cards and around fifteen QR codes.
These had been drawn up without great care and sometimes showed gross inconsistencies, such as prescriptions that were dated after the vaccination.
The woman said that she just wanted to do a favor to friends, family, or relatives of friends.
They would not have wanted to be vaccinated and the woman wanted to allow them to go to the cinema and restaurants.
The prosecutor assumed that the woman received money for the counterfeits, but the convict denied this.
In France, a health passport is required for many events and in many public places.
He has a full corona vaccination, a recovery from Covid-19 or a negative corona test.
Thousands of people have been demonstrating against the measure every Saturday across the country for weeks.
It was only on Saturday that a man in Chambéry, eastern France, shot at security guards because he was not allowed to attend an event due to a missing corona health passport.
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