Since October 30, the start of the second lockdown, restaurants and bars have never reopened - or at least officially.
Some have decided to welcome customers clandestinely, and the Ministry of the Interior is watching them: joined by
Le Figaro
and confirming information from RTL, Beauvau specifies that 7,345 checks were carried out by the police. in Parisian restaurants since the end of October.
Among them, 300 resulted in a verbalization.
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Stanislas Gaudon, delegate of the Alliance Police Nationale union, even estimates that at the national level and since December 15, 5.5 million checks and 500,000 minutes have been drawn up, for "
several hundred 'restaurants' which have made the 'subject to administrative closures and particularly financial sanctions
,' he said on RMC.
These figures come to light in the particular context of a controversy around the organization of clandestine parties in a Parisian restaurant, the Palais Vivienne, run by Pierre-Jean Chalençon.
This one declared, in a report carried out by M6, to have
“dined this week”
with
“a certain number of ministers”
in
“two or three”
“clandestine”
restaurants
, in spite of their ban on opening.
The public prosecutor announced Sunday at the end of the day to have seized "
the Brigade for the repression of delinquency in the person (BRDP) of the Paris judicial police of an investigation of the heads of endangerment of others and of hidden work.
», During the upscale evenings of the Palais Vivienne.
The investigation must "
verify whether parties were organized in disregard of health rules and determine who were the possible organizers and participants
".
Since October 30, some 1,000 customers have been fined for their presence in illegal establishments.
"The rule applies to everyone"
In
Figaro
, the Ministry of the Interior indicates that police checks are carried out "
throughout the territory
" without distinction depending on the district where the restaurants are located.
“
The same rule for everyone exists in France,
even insisted the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, invited this Tuesday morning to the microphone of Europe 1.
There is not on one side the bourgeois that we would let continue. to feast, and on the other the people we would come to control.
The rule applies to everyone
. ”
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And this rule is in principle severe.
At the end of February, the government tightened sanctions against restaurant owners who venture to open their establishment.
They risk a flat-rate fine of 500 euros, but also the loss for one month of the solidarity fund, an aid set up by the government to allow them to survive the pandemic.
Finally, customers can also be sanctioned with a fine of 135 euros.
