As often, for this type of party, the meeting place was secret.
Nearly 3,000 people were to gather overnight from Saturday to Sunday for a giant rave party.
It was originally to take place in a field in Seine-et-Marne.
But according to our information, this Saturday morning, seeing 300 vehicles filled with "partyrs", the local gendarmes turned them away.
The convoy then headed for Essonne, five kilometers away.
Head to lost agricultural land between Buno-Bonnevaux and Milly-la-Forêt, in Sud-Essonne.
According to Bernardin Coudoro, the mayor (SE) of the small village of Buno-Bonnevaux, nearly 700 to 800 people gathered during the day on Saturday.
The authorities got wind of the possible arrival of 3,000 people.
The Essonne prefecture then decided to close the RER D stations in the area (Boutigny-sur-Essonne, Maisse, Buno-Gironville, Boigneville) from 7:30 p.m. until the next day, causing the irritation of several residents.
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Then about fifty soldiers, assisted by dogs, combed the area, flown over by a helicopter to better understand the incoming flows.
The emergency services have also put themselves in battle order: a care station has been set up, as well as an ambulance, indicates the prefecture of Essonne in a press release on Tuesday.
The Essonne firefighters have also reinforced their local staff and are on alert, supplemented by civil security associations such as the Essonne Red Cross and the Mobile First Aid Unit.
At the height of the event, nearly 1,000 people managed to party until the early hours.
The site was finally evacuated on Sunday afternoon.
Buno-Bonnevaux, this weekend.
An illegal rave party gathered about 1,000 revelers on a field.
Several procedures are in progress, indicates the prosecution of Évry-Courcouronnes.
The sound equipment and nine vehicles used to transport it were seized.
In addition, all the vehicles present during the rave "were the subject of a statement of plates so that legal proceedings can be initiated for the occupation without authorization of a private land", indicates the wooden floor.
“This is private agricultural land, part of which is fallow, confirms Bernardin Coudoro, the mayor of Buno-Bonnevaux, who indicates that a complaint is “in progress” from the municipality.
Alcohol and drug tests
Numerous blood alcohol and narcotics checks were carried out by the gendarmes.
“Thus, 20 acts of driving under the influence of narcotics, 10 acts of driving under the influence of an alcoholic state and one act of driving without a license were noted, to which must be added 27 fines for possession of narcotics. “, specifies the prefecture.
A few kilometers away, in Seine-et-Marne, the gendarmes who had repelled the partygoers patiently waited for them to verbalize them in the early morning.
According to our colleagues from the
Republic of Seine-et-Marne
, they placed themselves in five different positions.
Result: 21 minor cannabis users were fined, eight motorists tested positive, including one for amphetamines.
Twenty traffic violations were also noted and five vehicles were impounded.
Illegal rave parties are commonplace in the south of Essonne, where partygoers take advantage of large, quiet grounds not too far from the capital.
In August 2020, in the neighboring village of Boutigny-sur-Essonne, nearly 300 people met in a field.
More recently, on the night of December 11 to 12, 2021, a 26-year-old young man died of carbon monoxide poisoning at a rave party between Molières and Limours-en-Hurepoix.