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These living in the hell of administrative death

2022-07-03T16:52:26.665Z


INVESTIGATION - A confusion in files, a false declaration and here are citizens in great shape embarked by the administration in the land of the dead. Then begins for them a Kafkaesque journey during which, from services to files, they will have to prove that they are in...


Transfers of suspended pensions, blocked bank accounts, a deactivated Vitale card, an invalidated driving license.

And always these mentions in big red letters that cross computer screens, at the pharmacy or at the bank:

“Deceased.”

Really, life gets really, really complicated… once you're dead.

Malicious acts, perfect namesakes, administrative errors, such imbroglios are rare but, almost every year, new cases of the “living dead” are recorded.

How do you prove to the administration that you are alive and well, when they declared you dead?

A way of the cross that Jacques Berthet, a spirited Parisian retiree, has been traveling for a few weeks, who, on May 11, while going to get a checkbook from his bank, incidentally learned that he had died seven months earlier.

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“Imagine that it was my wife who went to the bank, while I was traveling abroad, for example!

, panicked Jacques…

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Source: lefigaro

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