French investigators are allegedly investigating the participation of politicians in clandestine wild feast and parties. Outraged French demand that politicians be held accountable after they secretly participate in clandestine parties in expensive restaurants in Paris. 

Their guilt has not yet been proven the organiser of one such soirée told the journalists of the M6 channel about the bacchanalian dinner with the ministers. He later claimed it was a joke, but a wave of indignation was already rolling on Twitter, the Paris prosecutor’s office launched an investigation and the French Interior Minister promised to check the fact of the feast in the midst of the pandemic.

The scandal broke after the transfer of the M6 television channel, which on Sunday talked about how wealthy Parisians dine in the gourmet restaurants, despite the quarantine restrictions and 7 pm curfews for the less privileged French. 

On Friday evening, a private TV channel showed footage filmed with a hidden camera in one of the clandestine restaurants located in a prestigious area of the French capital. Scores of party revellers in attendance were not wearing masks nor were they observing other repressions expected of the general French population like social distancing. Neither did the waiting on staff wear masks as is the law in France.

After that, Paris Attorney Remy Heinz announced on Sunday evening that he was launching an investigation into cases where ‘leaders endangered others’ and ‘illegal activities.’ The prosecutor’s office will also check ‘whether parties were organised in which sanitary requirements were ignored’ and determine who was the participant and organiser.

In video you can see that the dinner for one person costs from 160 to 490 euros.

The outrage of the public was caused by the message of one of the organizers of such parties, with whom the journalists contacted. The man whose voice had been changed told reporters with a laugh: This week I dined at two or three restaurants called underground with some (government) ministers.

The debater in the program was dubbed ‘a collector’, but later his identity was revealed, as reported by L’Obs, Pierre-Jean Chalanson, the owner of the Palais Vivienne hall situated in the centre of Paris, where various events are organised, turned out to be an organiser of clandestine bacchanalian feasts during the coronavirus pandemic.

Chalanson himself, after a wave of disapproval, said through his lawyer that the announcement of the dinner with the ministers was a joke and called the suggestion that some  ministers really could have dinner in illegal establishments as absurd.

Pierre-Jean Chalanson joked in a similar way in February. Then he told in a video that got to the network that he organised lunches and dinners in his mansion with the collaboration of the restaurateur Christophe Leroy. 

Then Chalanson promised that the official representative of the French government Gabriel Attal ‘should come to dinner next time.’ 

In response, the 32-year-old spokesman said he was ‘surprised’ to learn about it from Twitter. ’He does not know Mr Chalanson and apparently never took part in any of his dinners or soirées,’ the French news agency was told by Gabriel Attal’s entourage. 

Nevertheless, the French demand that politicians be brought to justice who violate social distance and arrange soirees in gourmet restaurants, while ordinary people in the country are experiencing the third wave of the pandemic and put up with bans. 

On Wednesday, March 31, French President Emmanuel Macron announced new measures to contain the spread of COVID-19, which include the closure of schools, businesses that are not considered essential (in 19 districts of the country) and other restrictions. ’Everyone should cut back on contacts with other people,’ the French leader announced in his address to the nation. In addition, the country has a curfew from 19.00.

Now on Twitter, under the hashtag #OnVeutLesNoms (#WeHotimNoms), residents of the country are outraged by the elites who violate the order and are trying to find out exactly who is doing it.

Politicians also joined the wave of criticism. Thus, the Minister-Delegate for Citizenship at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of France, Marlene Schiappa, in an interview with the radio station Europe 1, said that ‘if ministers and deputies’ were really present at illegal dinners, ‘they should be punished with fines, just like any other citizen.’

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanen is now assuring citizens that the police will check whether there were secret parties and who was there? ‘I asked the prefect of the Parisian police to check the accuracy of the reported facts, so that, if they are confirmed, bring to justice the organisers and participants of these secret dinners,’ he wrote on Twitter. Source, Source2