No more checks, no more fakes uncovered.
On Monday, the Interior Ministry made public the number of fraudulent health passes discovered during police checks, increasingly frequent around places subject to restrictions.
Thus, 182,000 of these fraudulent passes have been identified since the introduction of the device this summer, a figure that has risen sharply compared to the last balance sheet.
As of Friday, only 110,000 of these fraudulent documents had been identified by police and gendarmes.
The numbers jump as the tone hardens in Beauvau.
The circulation of Covid-19 worries the ministry of Gerald Darmanin.
The many false vaccines with severe forms who confess once in hospital have drawn attention to the ability of law enforcement to flush out fraudsters and fake health passes.
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Faced with this increasingly visible phenomenon, the Interior has spread the word to its services.
Surveillance has been stepped up, especially online, where the best organized circuits try to sell their goods, at the risk of the health situation, however particularly tense as the holidays approach, with a little more than 50,000 new infections by day, on average.
A chain of fakes at 2 million euros
At the beginning of December, a sector which would have brought in more than 2 million euros was dismantled, thanks to digital surveys.
According to the first elements of the investigation unveiled last Friday by a source familiar with the matter, the counterfeiters would have used the identifiers of pharmacists on the site of the National Order of Pharmacists.
Between 5,000 and 10,000 false health passes were then generated.
Hacking, the theft of identifiers, even in the worst case identity theft, are not the only means deployed.
Other operating methods have also been identified by the police, including the fraudulent use of a QR code assigned to a third party.
Sometimes health professionals or administrative agents themselves provide false passes, pretending to vaccinate their patients.
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Thursday, Gérald Darmanin announced the arrest of a hundred people, both users and trafficking networks.
What to reinforce the pressure on the smugglers.
But they are likely to have more and more requests in the coming weeks, from those who categorically refuse to lend a shoulder.
Because at the end of January, the health pass could turn into a vaccination pass, which only the vaccinated can use.
A way to strengthen the fight against Covid-19 and the incentive to receive the injection.