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Two women were taken into custody in the North on Saturday July 22. They are suspected of having practiced illegal injections of botox on a large scale, without any training. More than 600 victims have already been identified.
The only thing that relieves Benoît today is cold water on his skin. “I’m trying to soothe the swelling and droopy eyelids.”, he explains. In 2021, the fifties had decided to find the face of his youth. Between botox and hyaluronic acid, the injections went wrong. Benoit was the victim of two sisters in their twenties who occasionally rented a salon.
26 people filed a complaint
The two sisters had made themselves known on the internet. However, they had no medical qualifications. At the end of four months of investigation, the research section of the gendarmerie of Lille (NOTorder) To grasped hundreds of unlicensed products. The laboratory analyzes also made it possible to detect, in certain syringes, the presence of bacteria at a level higher than the maximum authorized. 600 people would have received vsare illegal injections. So far, only 26 people have filed a complaint.