The clandestine dinners affair continues to generate ink. Since the broadcast of the famous report by M6 Friday April 2, 2021 in the 19.45, Pierre-Jean Chalençon is accused of having organized illegal dinners at the Palais Vivienne, which he owns. A lively controversy that splashes the government, while the famous collector assured in hidden camera – before retracting – to have dinner “with a number of ministers”. Received on the set of Do not touch My TV, sure C8 Wednesday, April 7, 2021, a server lifted a slight veil the guests of these events that would have been organized in the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic. In the talk show presented by Cyril Hanouna, this man who testified anonymously, revealed to have recognized a key figure on the small screen. “I’m not a media specialist, plus I have a bad memory, but I immediately recognized a big animator who rocked my childhood “, did he declare. Among the guests, the waiter would also have seen “a columnist who is still working at the moment”.
And that’s not all. According to him, a “active politician” would have been present at one of these evenings. “Between servers, we are briefed a little. And we were told ‘Be careful, at this table, he’s a politician so pay attention to the way of serving and the way of speaking”, said the young man. Several columnists then asked him if this politician was part of the current government. After kicking in touch, he finally threw: “I cannot say anything other than the fact that he is a person with gray hair. So there aren’t 40,000 politicians who have gray hair – in government, right now. “
“I am not organizing a dinner or a party”
As a reminder, an investigation was opened by the Paris prosecutor Rémy Heitz, Sunday April 4, 2021. Pierre-Jean Chalençon subsequently mentioned a “huge April Fool’s Day that worked”, on the set of BFMTV : “I do not organize a dinner or a party. I do not organize anything at all at the Palais Vivienne or elsewhere”, he assured. Then, through a press release, the Society of Journalists of M6 confirmed “the presence of at least one member of the government “, drawing on several sources.
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