“Usually neighbors call us for noise at night.
This weekend again, the police and gendarmerie were mobilized to put an end to clandestine parties in Paris, in Yvelines, Hauts-de-Seine or even in Oise.
Problem: these events banned during the health crisis are often held in pavilions out of sight.
“We cannot enter private property,” explains a police source.
We patrol and we wait for them at the exit… ”
On the side of the Paris police headquarters, they say they have been keeping an eye on the clandestine festivities for weeks.
“It has been permanent since the start of the health crisis.
If we close our eyes to the people walking through a park at 7:10 p.m. or the vegetable vendor whose stall stays open minutes after curfew time, we have no mercy on the holidays. clandestine, specifies a police commissioner.
This week, the noose has tightened a little more on travel between regions, especially in stations.
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This is how the police were brought to intervene in the 19th arrondissement of Paris on the night from Friday to Saturday.
About a hundred people were partying in a restaurant on rue de l'Atlas.
The guests were all fined 135 euros while the two managers were placed in police custody and prosecuted for "endangering the lives of others".
Neighbors had also noticed that it was not the first musical evening, some having been somewhat noisy.
It is in this establishment located at 1, rue de l'Atlas in Paris (19th) that a clandestine party bringing together more than 100 people was interrupted by the police services.
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Saturday evening, it was in the 2nd arrondissement that the police intervened, in a bar where 35 people were celebrating.
It also took reinforcements to carry out the checks.
Finally, this Sunday morning, it was in a hookah bar in the 20th arrondissement that the police officers also fined 30 consumers after having wiped jets of projectiles.
Scenes that repeat themselves, and not only in the capital.
In the Yvelines, the police forced to wait until the end of the party
During the night from Saturday to Sunday, the police intervened shortly before 3 a.m. in Vernouillet (Yvelines), boulevard de l'Europe.
On the spot, they noticed many parked vehicles but were blocked at the entrance of the house: no one came to open.
The 14 revelers were fined at the exit for non-compliance with the curfew, non-wearing of a mask and insulting noise.
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The previous night around 1:30 am, it was at Vésinet, still in Yvelines, that a private party was reported by two residents disturbed by the noise.
A hundred people would have gathered in a pavilion on Boulevard Carnot, but only a dozen were fined 135 euros.
Sometimes, the phenomenon even grows, as in the Oise, where salsa weekends were denounced on Saturday by residents of Catenoy.
According to residents, dozens of people, sometimes from neighboring regions, have been meeting there regularly since… February.
A clandestine party brought together a hundred people in the industrial zone of Sarcelles, in the Val-d'Oise.
Frédéric NAIZOT
The list can go on forever: a clandestine party brought together more than a hundred people in an industrial building during the night from Saturday to Sunday, in Sarcelles (Val-d'Oise), rue de l 'Escouvrier.
The police put an end to the festivities by intervening shortly before three in the morning, verbalized those present and arrested several others.
There was also this bar, the Vieux Fusil, in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine): 37 verbalizations, two police custody ... Up to office buildings, sometimes, as in Clichy, on Friday night until Saturday, boulevard du Général-Leclerc.
"I have found a parade ..."
Beyond the restaurants and other places usually open to the public for which the instructions are clear, the Ministry of the Interior is nevertheless clear: “It is not possible to receive guests at home.
People attending this type of invitation will not be able to justify their trip for one of the authorized reasons.
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Not enough to move Thibault, thirty-something from the Oise who receives 10 to 30 people at his place, "two to three times a week".
"Local friends", or sometimes from further afield.
“Part of it happens on weekends from Paris where they are in studios and frankly, this breathing is vital for them.
You can be sick in your head and do more damage.
And of course, if anyone has symptoms, they stay home.
"He knows very well that he is taking a risk, although ..." I have found a way to make sure that my neighbors do not denounce me ... I invite them.
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