Champagne and caviar: ‘French ministers at fuck corona dinner’ | Abroad

“You can continue. There is no corona here, ”a butler in a suit tells one of the guests in the baroque-looking decor full of gold leaf, champagne on the tables and caviar on the plates. A meal costs hundreds of euros.

Guests do not need a mouth mask. “We want people to feel comfortable. This is a private opportunity, we hope you will feel at home, ”says the butler on the images from TV channel M6.

The less fortunate can spend in the restaurant from € 160 per meal and those who really put the flowers out pay € 490 – and get the deal with caviar for that.

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Strange, because at the moment all cafes and restaurants in Paris are closed. Corona still reigns. In Paris alone, 1,500 people are said to be in intensive care.

Palace boss

The organizer of the event tells the French journalists that it is certainly not an incidental excess. “Very common,” he calls the event. “I ate in two or three restaurants with some ministers this week.” No problem, he thinks. “We are still a democracy, you can do whatever you want.”

Lawyers, showbiz celebrities and well-known businessmen would also line up. Names of ministers are not mentioned.

The organizer is made unrecognizable in the TV broadcast, but in French media everyone points to Pierre-Jean Chalençon, owner of the stately Palace Vivienne – located in the heart of Paris, between the Louvre and the Sacre Coeur – where the recordings were made.

“Completely wrong and slanderous,” the eccentric Chalençon responded on social media, but his chef did share a photo of a dining room, complete with wine glasses and a smiling Chalençon who sticks two thumbs up.

The photos of this chef, in a neat work suit and again posing with Chalençon, are circulating. Denying is a hopeless task. The French now want all the names and numbers of those present and share the slogan #OnVeutLesNomes, or #WijWillenDeNamen.

‘Watch out!’

Meanwhile, French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced in parliament that anyone who ‘is likely to endanger other people’s lives’ with, for example, a dinner, risks a year in prison and a fine of 15,000 euros.

“Prosecutors are being asked to systematically prosecute perpetrators who organize covert activities that are believed to endanger the lives of others,” said Castex. He was going to free up more police force for that.

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