Clandestine dinners: a search underway at Pierre-Jean Chalençon, at the Palais Vivienne

A search is currently being carried out by the authorities at the Palais Vivienne, at Pierre-Jean Chalençon's home,

learned

from the Paris prosecutor's office on Thursday, April 8, confirming information from BFMTV.

Pierre-Jean Chalençon, specialist in Napoleon and former figure of the successful program "

" on France 2, is suspected of having organized clandestine dinners within his property the Palais Vivienne, in the second arrondissement of Paris.

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The broadcast on Friday of a report by M6 on lavish clandestine dinners in Paris sparked a heated controversy last weekend.

One of the organizers, identified as Pierre-Jean Chalençon, claimed to have "had

" where he would have met "

".

Since then, Pierre-Jean Chalençon has returned to his statements, explaining that he wanted to make “

”, an “

”.

The cook Christophe Leroy, also suspected of having organized luxurious meals in the Palais Vivienne, and having experienced a search Wednesday at his Parisian home, said Thursday through the voice of his lawyer that these dinners were legal and that no minister had not participated.

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However, in the face of the outcry sparked by this report on social networks, in particular with a hashtag #OnVeutLesNoms, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, asked the Paris police prefect, Didier Lallement, on Sunday to open an investigation for examine the reality or not of the facts denounced.

In the process, the Paris prosecutor Rémi Heitz, for his part, opened a criminal investigation.