More than 110 people gathered in an underground restaurant were fined in the nineteenth arrondissement of Paris on the night of Friday to Saturday and the organizer as well as the manager were arrested, the Paris police prefecture said in a tweet on Saturday.
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The police "
required for a nighttime noise emanating from a restaurant put an end to a gathering of more than 110 people
", explains the prefecture.
The guests were "
fined for non-compliance with sanitary measures
", she adds, specifying that "
the organizer and the manager
" were "
arrested
".
Context of the controversy at the Palais Vivienne
This case comes after the heated controversy triggered by the broadcast last week of a report by M6 on luxurious clandestine dinners.
In this report, one of the organizers, identified as being the collector Pierre-Jean Chalençon, claimed to have "
dined in the week in two-three illegal restaurants
" where he would have crossed "
ministers
".
He has since reconsidered his remarks, explaining that he wanted to make "
humor
".
Friday, Pierre-Jean Chalençon and the cook Christophe Leroy were taken into custody.
Their custody was lifted at the end of the day.
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"
At this stage of the investigations, there is nothing to bring to light the participation of a member of the government in the meals
" which is the subject of an investigation, the prosecution said on Friday.
Nearly 1,000 customers of illegally opening restaurants have been fined in Paris since October 30, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.