fake pass holders wishing to be vaccinated can now go to a vaccination center to regularize their situation without risk of prosecution

Simplified procedure for the “repentants”. False pass holders who wish to be vaccinated can now go to a vaccination center to regularize their situation without risk of prosecution, specifies a message sent (PDF document) Monday, February 14 to all health professionals by the general management. of Health (DGS). A procedure allowed by the bill “strengthening the tools for managing the health crisis”, definitively adopted on January 16.

In concrete terms, a holder of a fake vaccination pass wishing to start their vaccination course can now report to the manager of a centre, who can proceed to “administrative cancellation” of the fraudulent pass, indicates a document (PDF) put online by the Ministry of Health.

The law initially only provided for the possibility for these “repentants” to report themselves thirty days after having committed an offense related to the pass, or after the promulgation of the text, which occurred on January 22. But the document sent on Monday by the DGS specifies that the center managers who will regularize these situations will not have to verify compliance with this deadline, any more than “inform law enforcement”. On December 30, the Ministry of the Interior counted at least 192,000 false passes, but this number is undoubtedly higher.