High standing evenings, in the heart of Paris, where a few powerful people from the country would rub shoulders.
Among which are members of the government.
The broadcast by M 6 of a report in immersion in an underground restaurant, in the beautiful districts of the capital, caused a lot of noise this Sunday.
For good reason, an organizer ensures, under the seal of anonymity, to have received members of the executive during evenings organized in his establishment.
Evenings during which barrier gestures would have been largely forgotten.
Caviar, champagne, menus from top chefs and compulsory mask removal ... Our journalists were able to enter these high standing clandestine parties which are currently being held in Paris.
🎥 @ frvignolle Armelle Mehani and @CyrielleStadler exclusively for 📺 # 19h45 pic.twitter.com/ClXpIWrVwZ
- M6info (@ m6info) April 2, 2021
"Once you go through the door there is no more covid," boasts one of the employees of the establishment.
It's a private club, we want people to feel at home, he continues.
Guests kiss each other, do not respect social distancing.
All to taste quality dishes, with menus that can approach 500 euros.
It was during this report that the organizer of one of these evenings, presented as close to the stars and portrayed as a renowned collector, throws his little bomb.
“I had dinner this week in two or three restaurants which are precisely supposedly illegal restaurants, with a number of ministers.
So that makes me laugh softly, ”he quipped.
The prefecture of police seized of this file
For several hours, the name of the collector Pierre-Jean Chalençon has often been presented as the man claiming to have dined in the presence of ministers.
An Internet user claims to have recognized the Palais Vivienne, in which he worked and which belongs to Chalençon.
Journalists also relayed Instagram posts posted by chef Christophe Leroy on social networks, in which the latter offered an exceptional moment at the Palais Vivienne.
Contacted by Le Parisien, Pierre-Jean Chalençon did not respond to our requests.
But wait ... aren't they even hiding in fact?
#restaurants # COVID19 #confinement pic.twitter.com/PfyAVPgaXG
- Marjolaine Koch (@MarjolaineKoch) April 4, 2021
In response, the Minister Delegate for Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, believes Sunday that "if ministers or deputies" have participated in luxury clandestine dinners in Paris, as M 6 affirms, "they must be penalized like any other citizen ”.
To a user who called for the resignation of these ministers if the facts were proven, Marlène Schiappa replied in the affirmative.
The Minister of the Interior also took up this issue, still on Twitter.
"Following the report by M 6, I asked the Paris police prefect to verify the accuracy of the reported facts in order, if they are verified, to prosecute the organizers and participants of these clandestine dinners", writes -he.
Following the M6 ​​report, I asked the Paris Police Prefect to verify the accuracy of the reported facts in order, if they are verified, to prosecute the organizers and participants of these clandestine dinners.
- GĂ©rald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) April 4, 2021
His colleague from Bercy, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, for his part reacted to the Grand Jury RTL-LCI-Le Figaro.
"There is no privilege for anyone and I would be curious that this restaurateur gives the names of the ministers if he is so well informed as that".
"All the ministers, without exception, respect the rule, no one believes they have the right to any privilege whatsoever," he insists.