(Photo of illustration) The manager and the organizer of a clandestine dinner were arrested in Paris. – Thomas COEX / AFP
Taken in full bamboche. More than 110 people gathered in a clandestine restaurant were fined in the 19th arrondissement of Paris on the night of Friday to Saturday in full confinement, and the organizer as well as the manager were arrested, said this Saturday the police headquarters of Paris in a tweet.
That night at # Paris19, the police men #DSPAP, required for a nighttime noise emanating from a restaurant, put an end to a gathering of more than 110 people:
➡️ Guests fined for non-compliance with the sanitary measures in force.
➡️ Organizer and manager arrested. pic.twitter.com/udt1Ji9MA0– Police Prefecture (@prefpolice) April 10, 2021
This case comes after the heated controversy triggered by the broadcast last week of a report by M6 on luxurious clandestine dinners.
Nearly 1,000 customers of illegally opening restaurants have been fined in Paris since October 30, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.
Verbalizations and interpellations
The police “required for a nighttime noise emanating from a restaurant put an end to a gathering of more than 110 people”, explains the prefecture. The guests were “fined for non-compliance with sanitary measures”, she adds, specifying that “the organizer and the manager” were “arrested”.
In the M6 report, one of the organizers, identified as being the collector Pierre-Jean Chalençon, claimed to have “dined in the week in two-three illegal restaurants” where he would have crossed “ministers”. He has since reconsidered his remarks, explaining that he wanted to make “humor”.
Friday, Pierre-Jean Chalençon and the cook Christophe Leroy were taken into custody. Their custody was lifted at the end of the day. “At this stage of the investigations, there is nothing to bring to light the participation of a member of the government in the meals” which is the subject of an investigation, the prosecution said on Friday.