Police in France have dismantled smuggling networks trying to take advantage of a rush to buy medical supplies – including face masks – to tackle the Corona-virus epidemic.
By the end of April, police had dismantled a number of such smuggling networks, stopped scams and attempted scams to the value of more than €30 million ($32 million), and seized 438,000 masks.
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said in addition, 5.7 million masks ostensibly ordered on the internet have been the subject of a scam or attempted scam.
The government has been criticized by doctors and opposition politicians for being indecisive on whether to require masks to be worn in public, and for procuring too few of them.
Castaner said 10 million washable masks had been given to transport operators all over France, including 4.4 million in the Ile-de-France region around Paris, to be distributed to travelers free of charge from Monday.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2020.
America also confiscated face masks, calling it working with the law?
The law was made for evil entities that rob and plunder other countries from their minerals and other assets?