One Sunday in 2019, the motorized brigade of Villefranche-sur-Saône was on patrol on the roads of Beaujolais, when the gendarmes saw three men busy in a garage. The soldiers learned that this garage belonged to a self-employed person. However, this status prevents any wage-earning. What were these men doing? An investigation has been opened.
This garage specializes in the purchase and resale of used vehicles. Purchased in Switzerland, these cars are declared at customs before arriving in the Beaujolais garage. There, they are repaired, the technical control is carried out, then they are resold on an online sales site. So far, nothing problematic. Except that since 2016 and the creation of the microenterprise, the…