They were obviously gone to party again all weekend.
With nearly 2,500 people at the height of this rave party on Thursday, revelers began to leave the premises by the hundreds this Saturday morning.
The clandestine evening, scheduled to last several days, was interrupted at 6 a.m., according to information from BFMTV and Ouest-France, confirmed by AFP.
#raveparty #Lieuron Police checks around the site are continuing.
Systematic verbalization of all people leaving the premises.
👉 More than 200 PV already recorded # NotreEngagementVotreSecurite pic.twitter.com/SUpLQVzOUf
- National Gendarmerie (@Gendarmerie) January 1, 2021
How did the evening end?
"There was no intervention by the police," nevertheless underlines the Ille-et-Vilaine prefecture, while specifying that the gendarmes, who control the axes to access the scene, carry out operations control and verbalizations.
The prefecture referred to an "interruption of the sound" without ruling out the possibility of a resumption of music.
The #raveparty is over in Lieuron.
Teardown almost finished when the music cut a few hours ago.
pic.twitter.com/OdIjNg582t
- France Bleu Armorique (@bleuarmorique) January 2, 2021
According to Franceinfo, some revelers are trying to escape the verbalizations of the gendarmes, in particular through direct access to an expressway, a few meters from the hangars.
Around 9 a.m., a large number of police officers were deployed near the now empty hangars, so that the revelers did not return.
How did the authorities react?
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin had convened Friday evening in Beauvau a meeting on this rave with the prefect and members of the cabinet.
“I worked with them this night to restore a normal situation by allowing the maximum physical integrity of all,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
This Saturday morning, on BFMTV, Camille Chaize, spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior, estimated that the only people to blame in this affair were the “organizers of this evening”.
VIDEO. New Year's Eve: a rave brings together 2,500 people in the south of Rennes
Thursday evening, the gendarmes had tried in vain "to prevent this installation and faced the violent hostility of many chirkers", had explained the prefecture of Ille-et-Vilaine on Friday.
During these clashes "a vehicle of the gendarmerie was set on fire, three other degraded and the soldiers wiped bottles and stones, causing slight injuries", according to the same source.