A rave party gathered Saturday evening about 2,000 people in a forest near Arcachon, said Sunday the prefecture of Gironde, despite warnings about the epidemic of Covid-19 "still in progress" . "Not declared" , the "rave-party" was held in the night from Saturday to Sunday in the Cazaux forest, near the Arcachon bay and the Pilat dune, in the town of La Teste-de- Buch, without doing "damage" , said the prefecture. The police who went to the scene of this festive gathering picked up 70 license plates to proceed with possible verbalizations, she added.
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For several days, at least eight other prefectures in the Center-Loire Valley and New Aquitaine regions had taken measures to prevent the "illegal" installation of a possible teknival likely to attract to their lands "several thousand" of people, between 10 and 15 July, explained in particular the prefecture of Vienne in a decree. Invoking the health crisis "still in progress" , the prefect of this neo-Aquitaine department thus intended to avoid "the creation of a cluster (focus, editor's note) of contamination" , believing that such a gathering "does not allow respect for barrier gestures ” .
