The manager of a nightclub in Vienne, in Isère, was tried on Friday with her brother, also an employee of the discotheque, for having organized about twenty clandestine parties between the months of April and November, despite health measures .

Six months suspended prison sentence and eight months firm were required.

Organizing parties when you run a nightclub is normal, but when you do it during confinement, justice can be very severe.

In the Lyon region, 22 underground parties took place between April and November 2020, at the Cesar Palace, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The manager of the establishment and her brother were tried on Friday by the Vienna court.

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The manager says she was not aware of anything

The two defendants tried to downplay things.

The manager of the nightclub, a 32-year-old who took over the business after her father, reiterated that she was not aware of anything, however saying that in normal times she managed the stocks. , guests and accounting.

Everyone of the night in Lyon was aware of these clandestine evenings at Cesar Palace.

Everyone except her.

Hard to believe according to the Vienna prosecutor.

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An organizer overwhelmed by the success of his evenings

The brother of the manager, a young man aged 20, employee of the nightclub, has meanwhile admitted to being the organizer of these evenings.

However, according to him, these were more meetings between friends that brought together between 10 and 15 people.

If he admitted that the crowd had risen to about 80 people, he explained that he was overwhelmed by the success of these evenings and word of mouth, and that he had not been able to say "no".

His lawyer, Me Maxence Pascal pleaded the unconsciousness of the young man.

"He is a young man who could not refuse that other guests enter the establishment in which he was," he explains at the microphone of Europe 1. "It is the youth who do not not fully aware of the risks incurred if they violate government-ordered health measures. "

But this thesis did not convince the prosecutor of Vienna who called for 8 months in prison against the young man, and six months suspended against his sister.

The deliberation will be delivered on January 22.