A report by a French television channel alleging "clandestine" luxury dinners in Paris despite the pandemic has sparked an investigation and a political furore over claims the elite were brazenly ignoring rules they themselves had set.
The M6 private channel broadcast a reportage 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.
All restaurants and cafes remain closed in France for dining in and the country this week began a new limited nationwide lockdown to deal with surging Covid-19 infections.