With her English teacher diploma, nothing predestined Layla J. to appear before the “eco-finances” room of the Bordeaux criminal court this Thursday.
And yet, this forty-year-old on sick leave since 2019 was on the stand to answer to seven counts of prevention.
Among them, the illegal practice of medicine and the profession of pharmacist but also endangering the lives of others, the undeclared importation of prohibited substances or appearing on the list of psychotropic drugs prohibited in France.
“I am very angry with myself for imagining that I put people’s lives in danger,” said the defendant in tears.
“I got lost in this delirium,” adds the one who initially simply wanted to “create an activity for my unemployed spouse.”
This teacher and her partner, a couple already identified by customs for having repeatedly imported prohibited products, had opened in 2020 a website for the online sale of aesthetic products, including botox without certification, a medicine from which only three brands benefit. a marketing authorization in France and which only pharmacists can issue, or lipolab — a product intended to dissolve fats.
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