Police seized 28,800 masks from a store in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) which were handed over to the Regional Health Agency to redistribute them to the department's health services, we learned on Thursday from concordant sources, confirming information from the Parisian .
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The investigation began a week ago in Marseille, when a seller offered a lot of masks to a pharmacy. The latter is arrested by the police and indicates that his supplier lives in Pantin. The supplier's home was searched on Monday as well as his shop in the Chinese wholesalers' district of Aubervilliers, where the masks were discovered, said the prosecutor's office in Bobigny.
Two people were placed in police custody then released and a preliminary investigation was opened, specifies the parquet floor. One of these two is the son of the supplier, who stated that his father was in China.