Nearly 6,000 people have gathered since Saturday night for an illegal rave party in the town of Viols-en-Laval, a village located 20 km north of Montpellier, announced the prefecture of Hérault Sunday.
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The participants in this illegal rave party arrived massively in the night from Saturday to Sunday, generating significant traffic difficulties, on an unsuitable ground difficult to access, "says the statement of the prefecture, which also mentions the presence on the scene of "1,500 vehicles of all kinds (light vehicles, caravans, trucks, motorhomes)".
The area where this event takes place illegally, classified as a Natura 2000 area, is "composed of scrubland and cramped tracks," recalls the prefecture. About fifty gendarmes are mobilized "to improve traffic flow and secure the surroundings. The perimeter is monitored to prevent the arrival of new participants and many controls are put in place, "she continues.
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Faced with the risk of fire and the difficulties of access to the rescue, an awareness of the organizers was carried out by the firefighters of the SDIS 34 and the gendarmes, "also notes the prefecture. A medical post has been set up to provide first aid and risk prevention associations are also present on site. In Isère, another illegal rave party in the countryside of Roybon gathered 1,500 people Sunday morning, according to the prefecture of this department.
