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Demonstration in Rennes to defend the "free parties"

2021-01-24T06:58:46.711Z


They were several hundred on Saturday in the streets of the city. “We're like everyone else, we're not bad people. We just don't have the same style, ”said one protester.


"

Hands off my party!"

": Several hundred people gathered on Saturday 23 January in Rennes to defend the"

free parties

"and against the"

repression

"launched after the rave of Lieuron (Ille-et-Vilaine), during a demonstration that took place. ended in clashes with the police.

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We are here to show that we will not let it go ... but peacefully!

», Explained Florian, a 24-year-old cook, who took part in the Lieuron party.

Like him, several hundred young people gathered in the city center of Rennes, initially in a good-natured atmosphere.

Police counted 800 people, including protesters against the Comprehensive Security Law.

Some danced to the sound of techno music, while others held up signs "

Hardcore is good for the body

", "

That sows repression, reaps RAVEolution

" or "

Open theaters, not our browbones.

".

"

It's been 30 years that free parties exist and 30 years that they are repressed

", regretted Florian, who says to have been fined three times during the New Year's party. "

We should not incur 10 years in prison just for to have made dance,

"added Kahoura, 18-year-old temporary worker, carrying a sign"

Don't touch my chug!

All organizers

”.

"

If anyone has to take, it's all of us because we were all there, we are all responsible,

" she explained.

We didn't do anything wrong, we just wanted to celebrate the New Year.

It was so hard, we needed to get away from it all

, ”she added.

"

We didn't mean harm to anyone: it was just a great big boom,

" approved Mélanie, a 20-year-old real estate student, who was holding a "

Peace and Love

"

sign

.

We're like everyone else, we're not bad people.

We just don't have the same style.

"

The young woman said she regretted that the organizers of the Rave party were, according to her, prosecuted more severely than some people accused of rape.

Around 4:00 p.m., after three hours of gathering, some people tried to install a "

sound system

" (transportable sound system), passed through the mesh of an imposing police device.

The police then intervened to confiscate the equipment, the use of which had been prohibited by the prefect.

The intervention provoked clashes between demonstrators and the police for nearly two hours.

The demonstrators threw various projectiles at the police who responded with tear gas canisters and a water cannon, while many passers-by were shopping on the first Saturday of sales.

At least one window has been smashed, AFP noted.

The police reported on Twitter "

14 arrests

", "

slight damage

" and three mobile gendarmes injured by "

mortar fire

".

Source: lefigaro

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