The cashier quickly realized the deception. The defendant, aged 34 and residing in the Rhône, came to join her sister-in-law that day, July 6, 2021 (the latter is absent at the hearing). Together, they went to Sport 2000, where they paid for clothes with fake holiday vouchers. However, they were arrested in the parking lot by the store’s security service, alerted by the employee.
The documents, with an alleged value of 50 euros each, were visibly crudely made. The two women had bought them, via the Snapchat social network, from “a man, near the Gare de Lyon Pardieu”. “I got scammed, I didn’t expect that,” says the 30-something. An argument that the prosecution finds hard to believe. “Everyone knows that the holiday vouchers are linked to a company”, indicates the public prosecutor who requires 300 and 400 euros in fines against the two women.
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The defendant’s criminal record is clean. “Is this your first time doing this?” asks President Anne David. “Yes and I would not do it again”, promises the Lyonnaise, repeating that she thought that the person who had sold her the checks at half price wanted to “sell them off…”
The false documents, which had been circulating for some time in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, had been reported by the authorities.
The two young women were fined 300 and 600 euros respectively.
Julien Moreau
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