France investigates secret restaurants for Paris elite
PARIS (AP) — Champagne, lobster and no masks: That’s what a French TV documentary says is on the menu at one of multiple high-end "clandestine restaurants" catering to the Paris elite, in violation of nationwide pandemic restrictions.
What’s even more shocking to the newly confined French public — and exhausted medical staff — is that one organizer claimed government ministers are among those who attend.
French authorities are investigating the accusations, and government members scrambled to insist they’re behaving properly.
Anti-capitalist activists and critics of President Emmanuel Macron aren’t convinced, and plan a protest Tuesday — advertised on social networks under the banner "Let’s Eat the Rich" — at one of the alleged secret venues,
The Paris prosecutor’s office said Monday that an investigation was opened Sunday into possible charges of endangerment and undeclared labor, and to identify the organizers and participants of the alleged gatherings.
Posted by: Besoeker 2021-04-06 |