Italian man tries to get vaccinated on fake silicone arm

Europe 1 with AFP 10:01 p.m., December 3, 2021

An Italian fiftieth from Piedmont eager to obtain the precious health pass tried unsuccessfully on Thursday to be vaccinated on a silicone prosthesis, the president of this region in the northwest of the country said on Friday.

"This case would border on the ridiculous if we did not speak of a gesture of enormous gravity and unacceptable in the face of the sacrifice that the pandemic makes pay to our whole community in terms of human lives and social and economic costs", denounced Alberto Cirio in a post on his Facebook page.

The color and the feel to the touch aroused suspicion

The man in question presented himself Thursday evening in a vaccine center in Biella, in Piedmont, in the north-west.

The prosthesis was very well made, but the color and the feeling to the touch immediately aroused the suspicions of the nurse in charge of administering the vaccine, who asked him to remove his shirt, thus discovering his subterfuge.

He then asked the nurse to act as if she had seen nothing, which she refused to do, told the President of Piedmont on his post, specifying that this man "will answer (for his actions ) before the court". 

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