Covid-19: twenty journalists from BFMTV and doctors surprised in an underground restaurant in Paris

This is information reported by The chained Duck in its latest edition, published this Wednesday, March 3. A week ago, on February 24, shortly before midnight, the police carried out a check in a clandestine restaurant, located near the headquarters of the chain. BFMTV, in Paris.

“A trendy establishment”

According to our colleagues, journalists from the news channel were present in this restaurant, a “fashionable establishment, which boasts of being at the crossroads of the major media”. At their side, health consultants, including executives from the AP-HP (Public Assistance – Hospitals of Paris), and a officer of the fire brigade. The manager of the underground restaurant was taken into custody for endangering others.

Twenty people on site have been fined by the police, due to the Covid-19 pandemic which has forced restaurants to close their doors for several months. The chained Duck, who reveals the case, does not fail to ironize: “suggestion for the next report: in the back kitchen of BFM.”

For its part, the magazine Capital indicates that the restaurant “Aux 3 Présidents” is located on the ground floor of the Altice group, owned by BFMTV, RMC or SFR, and is owned in person by Group CEO Patrick Drahi. A source inside the group specifies to Capital that the audiovisual group’s staff consisted of production technicians, sports journalists from RMC sport, former journalists from Mediapro, intermittents and medical staff from the Georges-Pompidou hospital who are not consultants of BFMTV.

In the evening, the general manager of BFMTV Marc-Olivier Fogiel indicated on Twitter that “‘no journalist or consultant of BFMTV was arrested in an underground restaurant in Paris at the end of February”.