France wants to increase fines for using fake covid passports to 1000 euros
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The French government has proposed increasing the fine for the use of fake covid passports from 135 to 1,000 euros for the first violation. Reported by The Local.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex condemned citizens using fake vaccination certificates. The government has already submitted a new covid passport bill to parliament. If taken, unvaccinated people will no longer be able to get to certain places by showing a negative coronavirus test. Some public institutions will only be accessible to those who are fully vaccinated.
The draft also contains proposals on toughening fines. Thus, the provision of a personal certificate to another person will be punished with a penalty of 750 euros. Café bars and other public establishments caught in non-compliance with pass checks will receive a fine of one thousand euros with the threat of closure for repeated violations with a monetary penalty of up to 45 thousand euros.
In December in Ukraine, a group of scammers, which brought together several heads of medical institutions and doctors, sold fake vaccination certificates against COVID-19 and earned millions of hryvnias from this until they got caught by law enforcement officers. Information about the vaccination was entered into the electronic system of public services “Diya”. Up to two thousand Ukrainians were “vaccinated” according to this scheme every month.
