After the affair of the clandestine dinners organized by Pierre-Jean Chalençon and Christophe Leroy, which caused a lot of noise, it was the turn of a senator to be at the heart of a controversy following a lunch in a palace Parisian.
For more than a year, France as well as the rest of the world, have lived to the rhythm of the coronavirus pandemic. While restaurants have been closed since October, many cases of illegal dinners are emerging in the media. After the parties organized illegally by Pierre-Jean Chalençon and the chef Christophe Leroy, it is the turn of a senator Les Républicains (LR) to be pinned. This Friday, April 16, Mediapart published an article claiming that Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam had lunch in a “salon”From the famous Parisian palace, Le Meurice. The main interested party confirmed having lunch, as part of a “professional meeting“, with a hotel guest, Christian Kälin, a”Zurich lawyer passing through Paris“. For her, no act “illegal“is not to be deplored.
At the end of this lunch which arouses heated controversy, the senator defended herself with Médiapart: “In this specific case, it was therefore a working lunch, not in the dining room, but served in a private area by room service, which is perfectly authorized in accordance with the sanitary protocol.“Journalist Valentine Oberti then told him:”It is forbidden to go to lunch in a private room of a hotel (…) including in a lounge with a person“, to which Joëlle Garriaud-Maylan retorted:”Pardon ? “, claiming that she ‘ignored“that.
???? Senator Les Républicains Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam had lunch at noon on Wednesday at Meurice, one of the most famous Parisian palaces. The elected representative speaks of a “professional meeting” and indicates that she did not know that it was prohibited.
Our investigation: https://t.co/EavSuzcE81 pic.twitter.com/ORfDVhRCkV– Mediapart (@Mediapart) April 16, 2021
At the heart of another scandal
Franka Holtmann, general manager of the hotel Le Meurice, also reacted to the media coverage of the affair and told AFP: “He was a hotel guest who was staying with us, and who obviously had a visit to his suite. We have no lunches or dinners other than those served by room service to customers staying with us.“She also wanted to clarify:”We do not serve in the lounges, they are all closed. If the Senator spoke of a living room, it must have been the living room of a suite. From what I know, there is no constraint on service via room service“, thus attempting to wash away the name of the palace.
Senator LR of the French Abroad is not at his first scandal. The Anticor association filed a complaint for embezzlement of public funds against Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam, in September 2020. Carole Biot-Stuart, Anticor’s lawyer, referred to a “use of the Money order advance account” personally. “It appears that she pays all of her current expenses with this card, including expenses related to her second home in the Pyrénées-Orientales (gasoline, electricity). She also does not hesitate to pay massage and aesthetic costs, not to mention the payment of doctors or pharmacy fees.“, affirmed the lawyer. For the senator implicated, it is only about a” scheme which aims to dirty me. “
Article written in collaboration with 6Medias
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