French police fine more than 100 diners at illegal underground Paris restaurant
- Underground restaurants offering wealthy people a ‘pre-coronavirus dining experience’ have made headlines in France throughout this week
- Officers were ‘called out for an excessive noise complaint about a restaurant’ late on Friday and ‘put an end to a gathering of over 110 people,’ Paris police posted on Twitter
Paris police said on Saturday they had fined more than 100 diners at an underground restaurant flouting coronavirus restrictions and arrested its organiser, after a week of allegations that ministers attended similar rule-breaking events.
“Guests fined for failing to respect applicable health measures. Organiser and manager arrested,” they added.
The prosecutor’s office said the two were released on Saturday as the investigation continues.
In a second incident in Saint-Ouen, just outside Paris, police fined 62 people at lunchtime on Friday, news channel BFMTV reported.
Police tweeted that they had also arrested the manager of that restaurant.
Underground restaurants offering wealthy people a “pre-coronavirus dining experience” have made headlines in France throughout this week.
The M6 private television channel last week broadcast a story based on footage recorded with a hidden camera purportedly from a clandestine restaurant in a high-end area of Paris where neither the staff nor the diners were wearing masks.