Pierre-Jean Chalençon is at the end of the line. It all started with the broadcast of a report on the M6 channel, in which we can see the collector in what appears to be a clandestine dinner at his home, at the Vivienne Palace. Videos that shocked even the government. Later, he admitted to having organized small dinners at 5.30 p.m. in a small committee. “I am very sad for the way I was treated. It’s a kind of ambush, a set-up. I’ll see with my lawyers, but I think I’ll file complaints“, he added. But he finally returned to his statements, on the set of BFMTV, Tuesday April 6, 2021: “If people don’t have a little humor, it’s because they haven’t understood a thing. It was a huge April Fool’s Day … that worked“he exclaimed, against all odds.”I don’t organize anything at all!“Tuesday April 6, 2021, on the set of Do not touch My TV, Cyril Hanouna tried to shed light on this affair: he asked him to explain himself once and for all and to tell the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Pierre-Jean Chalençon assures him: he too would have been shocked by these images: “A montage like that, it’s totally shocking“. However, he maintains his latest version: there was no dinner, it was all organized. to prepare for the summer, when normal activities can resume.
“There is no minister in my house!”
Pierre-Jean Chalençon thus ensures that he organized a kind of reception simulation, where between fifteen and twenty people were present. “It was not an evening, it was a meeting, a sort of presentation for the Palais Vivienne, for Napoleon’s return to the Palais Vivienne. I am organizing Napoleon’s centenary, there are a number of things that I have planned for after confinement: showing companies and individuals the Palais Vivienne, with a small catering“, explains the history enthusiast. For him, what matters is not the number of people:”The buzz of this story is that I used humor, and that unfortunately, humor I have the impression that in France, we no longer understand it. I am part of the Alphonse Allais academy, and he has a dry and cold humor, like me. I just said to a reporter on Friday when she called me, and not knowing this conversation would be recorded, I said ‘listen, of course, I even dine with ministers every night in underground restaurants’. It was a joke, of course!“, adds the one who considers it necessary”stop it all!“.
He regrets today to have made this joke, and assures that he did not have a minister or anyone from the government. He denounces a “media relentlessness“on behalf of the journalists of M6 who affirm the contrary, considering to file a complaint. He also assures that he”did not charge anyone“… Even if the menus of his chef, they would pay. A story that still remains opaque …
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