Residence documents counterfeited by Algerians in France for 12 years
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France’s police dismantled a network that contained tens of Algerian migrants specialized in counterfeiting residence documents in return for 1,000 Euros per person, media reported.
The suspects were questioned and seven of them appeared in a court in the town of Nancy, eastern France.
According to French media reports, the network issued fake residence documents and sold them to undocumented immigrants in France.
The suspects may be sentenced to 10 years in France by virtue of the French penal law.
The counterfeiters earned 1,000 Euros for each document they faked. They counterfeited birth certificates, seals and pictures, said the same sources.
According to the French police, the network has operated for more than 10 years. They classified it as “medium-sized enterprise” specialized in counterfeiting residence documents.
Thousands of Euros ad 12-year-old archives of counterfeiting were confiscated. Hundreds of French fake national identity cards had been issued since 2000.
The suspects issued fake identity cards for themselves in order to benefit from social assistance offered by French authorities.
The French police started the investigation as they had received notification about suspicious documents found at a municipality. The network was discovered by specialized groups from Counter-Illegal Migration Central Office. The French authorities announced they dismantled the network totally and definitively.
