Everything for the health pass: an Italian nurse pretended to vaccinate against the coronavirus for 400 euros

A nurse who pretended to give the injection of the vaccine against coronavirus In exchange for 400 euros for patients to obtain the vaccination certificate, she was arrested today in Palermo, in Sicily (south of Italy), the Police reported today.

This case joins other frauds that have occurred in the country to try to obtain the necessary vaccination certificate for numerous activities.

In exchange for the injection, the nurse discharged the dose of vaccine onto a gauze pad and then injected the empty syringe into the arm of the “patient”, as revealed by the images captured by a camera placed in the vaccination center where he worked.

The investigation carried out by the Palermo police investigation and special operations unit culminated in the arrest of the nurse and the leader of an anti-vaccine movement Filippo Accept and another accomplice Giuseppe Tomasino, participate in this plot of corruption and falsification.

Among the dozen “clients” who pretended to be vaccinated to obtain the vaccination certificate, the two detainees have been identified, as well as a police officer from the Palermo police station and another nurse from the same center.

The agents have blocked his certificate, necessary to access restaurants and entertainment venues in Italy, and have announced that they will suspend the police and nurses, who need to be vaccinated to work.

The commissioner for the Palermo coronavirus emergency, Renato Costa, explained today that, although it is an “isolated episode”, all “health personnel at the Fiera del Mediterráneo vaccination center feel betrayed.”

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