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“For several weeks, finding and scheduling meetings at the town hall has become a real business. In particular, in the Snapchat application, for an amount of 20 to 40 euros, Internet users offer an express meeting”, indicates the material.
At the same time, instead of waiting for a replacement passport for more than two months – according to some estimates, the average waiting time is 66 days – citizens can solve the problem of obtaining a passport. identity in ten days. And no cheating: the town hall really accepts packages of documents, and enterprising users offer to pay for the service in any convenient way: in cash, by transfer or even in cryptocurrency.

The whole secret lies in the software that the sellers of such a service create themselves. With its help, they monitor free slots in the reception schedule of one or more city administrations. According to one of the users, he earns about 2,000 euros a month in this way, although he does not spend more than two hours a day on “part-time work”.

The French Ministry of the Interior was surprised by the questioning of journalists on the legality of this practice, the police not being aware of it. Although they describe this practice as “immoral”, the entrepreneurs are not in danger: formally, it is not forbidden to sell places in the queue.

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