The Parisian “clandestine dinners” affair, revealed last week by M 6, continues to cause a stir.
While the Paris prosecutor's office has opened an investigation to identify participants in these sumptuous illegal dinners, notably organized at the Palais Vivienne, owned by the collector Pierre-Jean Chalençon, the search for a possible presence of ministers is perpetuated on the networks. social.
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Wednesday evening, Franck Riester, the Minister Delegate in charge of Foreign Trade and Attractiveness, had to react on Twitter, tired of seeing his name "associated here and there with the controversy surrounding the holding of illegal dinners".
I see my name associated here and there with the controversy surrounding the holding of clandestine dinners.
These rumors are totally false and shocking.
I formally disclaim them.
Let us remain mobilized to fight the virus together.
- Franck Riester (@franckriester) April 7, 2021
The latter was indeed designated on social networks, after the intervention of a man in the program "Touche pas à mon poste" on C8, presented as one of the servers of these clandestine dinners, who claimed there to have already crossed "a politician in activity" with "gray hair".
Without really knowing if he is a "member of the government".
"A politician with gray hair"
Bruno, waiter for Pierre-Jean Chalençon's evening of April 1 at the Palais Vivienne, comes out of the silence in #TPMP and talks about the personalities present!
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- TPMP (@TPMP) April 7, 2021
The name of Franck Riester having been mentioned in February in an interview with the collector broadcast in February on YouTube, in which he reported knowing him well, describing him as a "friend", many Internet users believed to see a link there.
“These rumors are totally false and shocking.
I formally disclaim them.
Let us remain mobilized to fight together the virus ”, defended himself on Twitter the person concerned.
April Fools " ?
In the report of M 6, a man whose face is hidden but who could well be the collector, had assured to have dined "this week in two or three restaurants (...) supposedly clandestine, with a certain number of ministers ".
Before changing his mind, first through his lawyer, who detected in him the quality of handling "brilliantly the sense of the absurd."
", Then, at the microphone of BFMTV, even evoking an" April Fool's Day ".
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To date, the presence of members of the executive at an illegal dinner could not be determined.
The message was in any case wanted strong, on the side of the government.
"If ministers or deputies have broken the rules, they must have fines and be penalized like any other citizen," said Sunday on Europe 1 the Minister for Citizenship Marlène Schiappa.
"Either (these facts) are false and we must not cast reproach obviously, or they are true and obviously (...) people must be able to be prosecuted and, I imagine, condemned for having organized such parties" , also commented the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, who seized the prefecture of police of Paris for an administrative investigation.