Cornered by financial difficulties and without state aid since October… When Abdel D. rented his 600 m2 village hall in Mortefontaine-en-Thelle, on the night of March 6 to 7, he thought just make a little ticket.
But he swears he had no idea that a clandestine party would be organized there.
This Tuesday, the Beauvais court, however, sentenced him to a fine of 500 euros for "irregular opening of a public establishment" in the midst of a health crisis.
As often, it all started with a phone call to the gendarmes of a local resident annoyed by the noise coming from the village hall.
When they arrive in front of the Apollo, at 3 a.m., the police note the presence of many cars parked in the hamlet of La Mare d'Ovillers, out of town of Mortefontaine, and understand that this is a clandestine party.
Inside, they discover a crowd of people without masks, bottles of alcohol and cartridges of nitrous oxide on the tables.
An evening with an entrance fee of 30 euros
After having organized a filtering dam outside, they will issue fines to 71 people for not respecting the curfew.
But investigators estimate the number of guests at more than a hundred.
Behind the party, an organizer who calls herself “Claudia Victoire” on social networks.
Identified by the gendarmes, she admits having invited about fifty people to the evening via the Snapchat social network, with an entrance fee of 30 euros.
But the distribution on the networks exceeds it and attendance reaches 110 people.
Judged on March 8 for endangering the lives of others in the context of an appearance on prior admission of guilt (CRPC), “Claudia Victoria” was sentenced to a fine of 700 euros.
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Abdel D., the owner of the room, had been apprehended in the wake.
At the hearing, he indicates that he rented his room to a friend who had explained to him that the goal was to organize a birthday party for about forty people.
In exchange, Abdel D. pockets 1200 euros.
“It was a provision of my room.
I had absolutely no idea that a clandestine party was being organized behind my back.
It was absolutely not what was planned, ”he laments.
Low voice, round and tired face, he continues: “I thought that the people present would only be relatives of the one who had rented the room to me and that there would be respect for the sanitary instructions, with masks and PCR test. "Opposite, the president of the tribunal, Jean-Baptiste Sauty, reminds him that he is not judged for" endangering the life of others "but for having" made the room available ". "You are responsible for what happens in your establishment", underlines the magistrate. And to put him face to face with the obvious: "Without this room, there would never be this meeting."