Two women will be tried on August 17 in Valenciennes (North) for illegally injecting hyaluronic acid and botox on hundreds of customers, including 26 identified victims, recruited on social networks, said Wednesday the National Gendarmerie. “Some victims have serious complications that required surgical operations (infections, inflammation, necrosis)”, it is underlined in the press release.
The two suspects were arrested on July 12 after an investigation by the Lille research section, as part of a “digital watch” on the theme of these illegal injections. The gendarmes first detected in March “two particularly active Instagram and Snapchat accounts”, whose owner, who presents herself under the pseudonym of “Doctor Lougayne”, is quickly identified and located.
The investigation allows “to confirm the illegal practices of the pseudo-doctor, helped by his sister and to identify several hundred customers for profits estimated at more than 120,000 euros”, according to the press release. The two women organize “injection sessions” in “all of France, in apartments or beauty salons rented for the occasion or even at home”.
Cash and high-end cars
They were arrested for the first time in May in Valenciennes after “injections on several clients, for prices ranging from 200 to 400 euros”. The investigators found on the scene “a hundred syringes and vials of hyaluronic acid and botox, mostly of foreign origin”, some of which are outdated, continues the gendarmerie.
Other products were seized during the search at the home, as well as “more than 14,000 euros in cash”, two high-end vehicles and luxury items. The two suspects are then left free, the time to broadcast a call for victims and to analyze the products, in which a level of bacteria is detected up to “fifty times higher than the maximum authorized thresholds”. They are again placed in police custody on July 12, in particular for “illegal exercise of the profession of doctor”, “fraud” and “endangering the lives of others”, according to the press release. One was remanded in custody and the other under judicial supervision pending trial.
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