translated from Spanish: They discover illegal network of luxury restaurants open during the pandemic in France

A report aired by the M6 channel of French television has uncovered an illegal network of luxury restaurants in Paris that have skipped the rules in the middle of the pandemic, in a scandal that has led the Gallic Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, to ask for an investigation into it. An anonymous individual, identified as an organizer of a secret party, revealed that he had eaten this week “in two or three ‘illegal’ restaurants with several ministers,” without giving further details. The issuance of the report has led the French Public Prosecutor’s Office to open an investigation on this Sunday “to check whether the festivities were organized in violation of health standards and to determine who the organizers and participants may have been.” The report, which aired friday night, highlights the existence of a luxury secret restaurant in Paris that was still open despite measures against the coronavirus. It should be remembered that restaurants in France closed at the end of October due to the pandemic.” The people who come here take off their masks,” according to a staff member at one of the restaurants, also under complete anonymity. “Once you walk through the door, there’s no coronavirus anymore,” the employee says. The report also introduces audiences to a party at an elegant establishment where people don’t wear masks and don’t observe the rules of esttachment. Thus, the French Interior Minister has instructed the Paris Police Prefecture to “verify the veracity of the reported facts and, if so, prosecute the organizers and participants of these clandestine dinners”. The report has put French society on a war footing, which has protested on social media under the label “We want the names” (#OnVeutLesNoms), given the extremely tense of the crisis in the country. In fact, Public Health france has confirmed on Saturday that 5,273 people are admitted to the country’s intensive care units, after registering more than 399 income in the last 24 hours and until exceeding the intensive income of the previous wave, when a maximum of 4,093 occupied the exceptional care wards in mid-November. The number of hospitalizations continues to increase, with 28,886 patients including 1,730 new incomes in 24 hours. The seven-day figure is also increasing, with nearly 13,500 incomes, of which 3,074 have entered intensive care. As for the positivity rate, which measures the percentage of positive people, it stands at 7.9%. The disease has killed 96,493 people since the epidemic began in March 2020, 187 more in recent hours.

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