“
The hardest part is ahead of us
,” predicts Colonel Hervé Pétry.
This experienced officer, who headed the Lyon Research Section and worked in criminal intelligence, has been since February at the head of the brand new National Cyber Unit (UNC), this leading body of the gendarmerie in charge of the fight against cybercrime throughout the national territory.
On the occasion of the Paris Olympic Games, he commissioned Captain Étienne Lestrelin and his team to track down counterfeit note fraud.
A little over four months before the event, they agreed to open the doors of their unit to Le
Figaro
, located within the very secure judicial center of the national gendarmerie in Pontoise, in Val-d'Oise.
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France has been tasked by the organizers of the Olympic Games with preventing and dismantling the trafficking of counterfeit tickets on an international scale, in permanent liaison with its Europol partner countries.
The subject is highly sensitive when we know that more than 15 million tourists will arrive in the capital between July 26 and August 11 and that not all will be equipped with the precious sesame.
Among the most anticipated competitions, the opening ceremony, the 100 meters or the 100 meters freestyle will, for example, attract the desire of spectators and therefore the interest of delinquents or criminal organizations.
“
We have been preparing for two years and we will ramp up in the coming weeks
,” they announce in one voice…
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