The meeting takes place in a basement in the north of Paris. A BFMTV crew, equipped with a hidden camera, finds a young man they met on Snapchat there. The latter has decided to take advantage of the fuel shortage currently affecting France, caused by a protest movement in several refineries, to make money.
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As agreed on the social network, after a brief discussion, he ends up filling the tank of our team’s car with a 20-liter can of unleaded gasoline, which he sells at the exorbitant price of 4 euros per liter. But where do you get it?
And business is good. “Sometimes people take 100-liter, 150-liter drums… (…) I slept there for just 2 hours,” she slides.
“I prefer to be caught with gasoline than with drugs”
The young man is not the only one who indulges in this traffic on Snapchat. Currently, the platform is full of these crisis profiteers. BFMTV crews managed to contact a second trafficker, who agreed to testify anonymously.
In his trunk are stacked cans of 95 and 98 unleaded gasoline and diesel. VTC driver, he is more than used to Parisian service stations, and he knows where to go to refuel his vehicle and its many jerrycans. It has even been equipped with an automatic pump to fill your customers’ tanks faster.
Their prices are a little more attractive than with the first dealer: 3 euros per liter. Since the start of his illegal activity a few days ago, he has already earned 500 euros. Remorse? He does not have.
“It is in wartime that money is made. Hopefully this situation continues, that’s good. I’d rather be caught with gasoline than drugs, ”she says nonchalantly.
Source: BFM TV
