The Boncourt pavilion, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, where the Ministry of Higher Education is located. – Djebara / Concept Photo / SIPA
- A video showing people dancing in the offices of the Ministry of Higher Education was very popular on Twitter on Monday.
- It was published in the wake of the broadcast of a report on M6 about illegal restaurants.
- In this report, the evening organizer Pierre-Jean Chalençon explained that he had welcomed ministers, before retracting.
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The video is a little over a minute long and doesn’t show much. A few people jiggling, probably dancing, behind a window, when it’s dark. There is, a priori, no mask and the atmosphere seems festive. There are three, four, maybe five people. These images of very average quality were broadcast this Monday on Twitter by an Internet user with this message: “Little” bamboche “organized at the Ministry of Higher Education … Video filmed on January 29, 2021 around 10 pm …”. This Monday, at the end of the afternoon, the scene had been seen nearly 50,000 times, accompanied by very trendy hashtags this Monday on social networks such as #MangeonsLesRiches #chalencon and #RestaurantsClandestins.
In comments, many Internet users share their indignation, in the wake of the controversy arising from a report by M6 on chic illegal restaurants. In this subject, we hear Pierre-Jean Chalençon evoke the presence of “several ministers” in these social evenings without mask or social distancing, before retracting. These remarks made by this collector, friend of the stars and presumed organizer of these evenings, caused an outcry on the Web, going as far as the opening of an investigation demanded by the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin.
FAKE-OFF
Contacted, the office of the Minister of Higher Education Frédérique Vidal confirms the authenticity of this video and its shooting date (January 29). “It was a Friday evening, it was past 10 pm. It was a moment of conviviality between a few collaborators, who were in a shared kitchen, ”explains the minister’s office in 20 Minutes, before adding. “It’s a moment of relaxation on the sidelines of a work week, there is no need to show it off.”
The images were filmed by a woman who was in a building located just in front of the Pavillon Boncourt, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, where the Ministry of Higher Education is located. It was a friend of hers who relayed her on Twitter this Monday morning. “There are fed up with” do what I say and not what I do “of this government”, explained tweeters Johnny_keumook who recognizes that “the affair of illegal restaurants was the last straw”.
Small “bamboche” organized at the Ministry of Higher Education …
Video filmed on January 29, 2021 around 10 p.m. … #EatTheRich #chalencon #RestaurantsClandestins @sup_research pic.twitter.com/pvZ6ejz0QJ– Johnny_keumook ???? (@ton_breu) April 5, 2021
The latter explained to 20 Minutes have already sent this video to several opposition political figures “from all sides” but without success. He finally decided to publish it on Monday, which the ministry does not really like. “We fall into something dangerous and harmful, in a society of denouncing with people who film in the windows of cabinet staff who work 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, observing the daily life of a ministry and waiting the slightest misstep ”, worries one in the cabinet of the minister, which evokes“ a desire to harm the government ”.
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