The compartmentalization of justice has enabled it to escape any prosecution until then.
Iltusen B., 31, is wanted by the police near Toulouse, she has complaints against her in Marseille, Montpellier and other departments ... But each time under different assumed names.
Only his photo accompanying his report and many distinctive signs confirm that it is the same person, specialized in scams.
Called by turns Iptaa H., Dr Inaya R. or Madame K., this woman poses as a doctor to patients for whom she performs paid acts.
Problem: she has no diploma.
Taking advantage of the anguish generated by the pandemic and the general ignorance around Covid-19, she proposed screening tests during the first containment ... using a device detecting diabetes.
In particular, it carried out six tests with victims from Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine).
Assuring them that they were negative even though they were sick.
Particularly pissed off because a family member had died from the coronavirus, two patients themselves arrested the scammer and turned her over to the police, before she could disappear as she had done in other cases. other departments before.
Iltusen, Iptaa, Dr Inaya R. or Madame K., the fake doctor has been reported all over the place.
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This Thursday, in the court of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), she is called to appear for fraud with use of the false quality of doctor.
She will answer only for the series of false tests carried out for 70 euros in Boulogne-Billancourt.
“We think she will not show up, blows a source close to the matter.
She always fled until then.
"And on the side of the National Order of Physicians, we judge" these extremely serious facts.
This person clearly endangered the safety of his fellow citizens; there is a public safety issue here.
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"I was afraid for my mother"
Because his father had just been placed in intensive care for Covid on April 6, 2020, Sélim
(the first name has been changed)
urgently wanted to be tested the same evening by Iltusen B. “I live with my parents in Boulogne. and seeing my father in the emergency room, I was also afraid for my mother, recalls this forty-something bank employee.
I wanted her to be tested, just like me, to avoid contaminating her.
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This friend who had his whole family tested noticed the "doctor" on Periscope.
A social network on which the scammer posted videos showing her to migrants and injured during protests.
Events on which she was already fraudulently passing herself off as a practitioner with associations.
"These are the videos that made my clients believe that she was a real doctor," said Me Kévin Bouthier, lawyer at Lecat & Associés.
In April 2020, at the very beginning of the Covid epidemic, there was not yet the hindsight and the necessary knowledge to recognize a real Covid test from a fake.
And with the hospitalization of a loved one, we are in a state of extreme vulnerability.
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"She told me that they had euthanized my father"
On her profile, Iltusen B., who then called herself Dr Inaya R., announced that she was traveling to Paris and had the equipment to carry out tests at home.
Selim asks him to come.
“She scraped the back of our throats with a spatula and put everything in a machine,” he recalls.
Thirty minutes later, the result falls: it is negative.
His sister and mother too ...
"Yet she had no way of knowing whether or not they had the coronavirus", loose a source close to the file.
But Iltusen B. plays the game thoroughly and even takes the vital card of the interested parties, pretending to connect it to his cell phone.
“She told us that we would be reimbursed directly by the Social Security, Sélim advances.
So we all paid 70 euros.
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But the patients are not feeling any better.
“I was distraught, my father had died of the coronavirus at Foch hospital (Suresnes) on April 10, continues Sélim.
I contacted her again because I needed support.
And to continue to make me believe that she was a doctor, she told me that she would have access to my father's file.
And a few days later, she told me that in fact they had euthanized him and that he had not died from the Covid.
I no longer knew what to believe.
"
"It's crazy, I may have infected people"
By dint of inquiring, Sélim and his friend have doubts about the test they carried out and about the skills of Dr. Inaya R. Sélim goes to a laboratory two weeks later.
He learns he is positive.
"It's crazy, in the meantime, I may have infected people, I continued to go to work", he loses his temper.
He then decides to set a trap for the false doctor.
“We didn't want her to get away with it.
We told her that we had other friends who wanted to be tested and, attracted by the money, on May 24, she came to the meeting, Sélim confides.
There we called the police.
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She "always dreamed of being a doctor"
In custody, the one who also had a LinkedIn profile of "emergency doctor" quickly confessed: "I always dreamed of being a doctor, my equipment consisted of a stethoscope, a device to take blood pressure. , a lamp to monitor vision, a diabetes machine and several sampling sticks.
»Business probably stolen during a previous scam ...
The scammer had several LinkedIn business accounts.
This one had served him in 2019 in particular on the side of Montpellier, Toulouse and Marseille.
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“She takes advantage of people's misfortune, plague Selim.
She played with our health.
I want it to be stopped.
That she can't start her ride again elsewhere.
She is dangerous.
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All the more so as more than thirty complaints have already been identified all over the territory against him for similar facts.
“But we were absolutely not contacted during his arrest in Boulogne-Billancourt, regrets one of the investigating services concerned.
Unfortunately, given the number of aliases, by searching under her real name, the police could not know that she was wanted elsewhere.
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On several occasions, she passed herself off as a doctor from Samu to the elderly she came to visit.
And told them to have lost his bank card in order to obtain a few hundred euros.
"A pathological mythomaniac"
In Montpellier, a year earlier, a young woman lodged a complaint against her then named Iptaa, because the intervention of the scammer made her waste time in taking care of her seriously ill little sister, repatriated from Algeria, and finally died on March 9, 2019. But the implication vanished and local investigators never heard it.
A few weeks later, in Toulouse, she is suspected of having stolen medical equipment during a demonstration of yellow vests.
She is part of the “Secours Toulousains” street medics team.
On his second weekend, his behavior and decisions worry one of the officials.
This one discovers at the end of the day that she disappeared with a bag.
He broadcasts a message to other street medics in France and files a complaint after realizing that all the information she had given about her was false.
Iptaa was also almost hired at the Muret clinic (Haute-Garonne), fortunately unmasked after having nevertheless managed to have several partners.
"She also deceived several of her boyfriends who speak of a pathological mythomaniac", relates a legal source who heard of two cases.
The first in Paris in 2016 and the second, reported in particular by La Dépêche, in 2020 at the same time when she was also fooling Sélim and his friend.
Hot water advocated as a remedy for coronavirus
But she is not the only one to have benefited from the pandemic.
Scams have flourished in recent months.
"We transmitted to the competent authorities reports of healers who offered for remuneration to treat the Covid in a preventive or curative way by ingestion of clay, sighs Dr Boyer, president of the public health section of the national council of the order of physicians .
It is impossible to know the number of victims in this type of case because most of them do not dare to file a complaint.
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Other cases of “ethno-doctors” have also been pinned down for Covid treatment programs based on plants or ancestral potions.
"We also had a dozen real general practitioners who offered fanciful treatments, it is extremely rare, but they were called to order", continues Dr Boyer.
One of them advocated hot water as a remedy for the coronavirus.
Above all, practitioners have also been victims of scams: fake laboratories claiming to sell antigenic tests at slashed prices have canvassed them all over France.
Several health professionals have filed a complaint.
"In this period of anxiety, people are powerless and open to promises, but before choosing a treatment, they must turn to their family doctors who represent beacons and provide reasoned information", comments the president of the public health section of the national council of the medical order.