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Probe into claims that ministers attended 'secret' Paris dinners

Prosecutors have started an investigation after a television report about secret meals in luxury restaurants in Paris in breach of Covid-19 restrictions - some allegedly attended by French governemnt ministers.

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France is in an uproar over a television report about secret meals in luxury restaurants in breach of Covid-19 restrictions - and now the authorities have become involved, reports Yahoo! News.

The report by channel M6 shows, for one thing, a secret high-end restaurant in Paris open despite the coronavirus measures.

"I have eaten this week in two or three restaurants that are so-called illegal restaurants with a number of ministers," a man introduced as an organiser of a secret party says in the report.

The Paris prosecutor's office launched an investigation on Sunday.

"The aim of the investigation is to verify whether parties were organised in violation of health regulations and to determine who the organisers and participants may have been," it said.

Restaurants in France were closed at the end of October because of the pandemic.

"People who come here take off their masks," says an unrecognisable staff member.

Read more of this report from Yahoo! News.