About twenty people, the vast majority of them French, were arrested during a clandestine party in the village of Saint-Mard, in the south of Belgium near the French border, on the night of Saturday 12 to Sunday 13 December, AFP learned from a source close to the matter.
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Called for nighttime noise, about fifteen police officers intervened and fined 22 revelers in a rented house where they also discovered about fifty shisha as well as bottles of laughing gas, according to the same source.
Fines of 250 euros
According to the Belga agency, the party brought together around fifty people violating anti-Covid measures.
Those arrested were fined 250 euros.
According to the newspaper
La Meuse
, it was an "orgy" on the occasion of a birthday party.
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In early December, the police intervened in Brussels during a gay libertine evening, arresting around twenty people including a Hungarian MEP close to Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who resigned from his post shortly before the case was revealed.