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Police dismantle counterfeit Louvre banknote trafficking, 14 dealers arrested

2022-06-11T19:37:50.802Z


Resellers collected used tickets from tourists who had completed their visit, and ripped off people queuing to enter, reveals Le Parisien.


Trafficking in fake admission tickets to the Louvre Museum was dismantled in Paris on Wednesday and fourteen people were arrested, we learned on Saturday from a police source, confirming information from the Parisian.

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Police officers from the Paris Conurbation Local Security Department (DSPAP) “

carried out a vast operation aimed at dismantling a traffic in counterfeit tickets

” which were sold to tourists in the queue in front of the doors of the Parisian museum , we learned from a police source.

"

This operation made it possible to arrest 14 individuals, eight of whom were placed in police custody

", specifies the same source.

The six others, in an irregular situation, have been placed in detention as part of the ongoing investigation

”.

According to

Le Parisien

, members of the network collected paper or electronic tickets from visitors who had just completed the tour of the museum, before reselling them for more than the purchase price to other people.

The Louvre Museum, which welcomed 2.8 million visitors in 2021, welcomed around 10 million visitors per year before the Covid-19 pandemic.

Source: lefigaro

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