Coronavirus in Paris: An investigation opened against a fake laboratory nurse who carried out a test (Illustration) – AFP
How many people has she scammed? The central police station of the 5th and 6th arrondissement of Paris opened an investigation last Monday for “fraud linked to the pandemic to the detriment of a medical laboratory” after the report of a false laboratory nurse who illegally carried out an antigen test ,
found The Parisian, this Saturday.
On March 18, a man standing in line in front of a laboratory of the Cerballiance network, where he had an appointment to be tested, was approached on the sidewalk by a woman pretending to be a laboratory nurse.
Grossly plagiarized lab header
“By a pass-through number that still escapes investigators,” says the Parisian, the woman manages to convince him to carry out this test in a parallel street for the sum of 15 euros in cash.
A few hours after this test, the man receives an email with the result of his test, positive, on a piece of paper with a rough copy of the official Cerballiance letterhead. Informed, the laboratory immediately notified the police station. The investigators, who are continuing their investigations to identify the false laboratory assistant and find out how many tests she has performed, “have a specific description and a particular trait: the laboratory assistant has her arm tattooed”, detail our colleagues.