PARIS – Some French ministers would have participated in “clandestine dinners” in exclusive but “illegal” restaurants in Paris, because they were open in spite of the restrictions desired by the government to stem the coronavirus epidemic. This was revealed in a special broadcast on Friday evening by the television channel M6 and recorded with a hidden camera, in which an organizer of these evenings admitted that members of the executive had attended, although he did not identify them. Man, whose identity – specifies BfmTv – remains to be confirmed, he says he “dined this week in two or three illegal restaurants with a certain number of ministers”.
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The hashtag #OnVeutLesNoms (#We want names) has become trending on Twitter. More than 16,000 users want to know the names of the participants and ask for their resignations. The prefecture of Paris has opened an investigation.
“I asked the prefect of the Paris police to verify the veracity of the facts in order to prosecute the organizers and the participants if they were true,” tweeted the interior minister. Gerald Darmanin. His deputy delegate to Citizenship, Marlene Schiappa, he added that if the participation of members of the government in similar events were to be discovered, there would be no discounts or privileges “.
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“If ministers or deputies have broken the rules, there must be fines and they must be sanctioned like any other citizen,” he stressed. “There will be no privileges for anyone”, echoed the Minister of Finance, Bruno the Mayor, who at the same time said he was convinced that his colleagues did not attend the dinners and wondered why the organizer did not provide the names.
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The images disseminated by M6 they would show an event, complete with a menu ranging between 160 and 490 euros, “in an underground restaurant in a good neighborhood”. We see that neither the participants nor the waiters wear masks. The TV channel also got footage of a paid evening, in which dozens of guests without masks are seen, some of whom kiss, before sharing the caviar and champagne menu.
“Once you walk in the door, there is no Covid. We want people to feel comfortable. This is a private club. We want people to feel at home,” says one of the respondents.
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