An investigation was opened Monday after a party, visibly improvised, in the park of Buttes-Chaumont (XIXth arrondissement of Paris), in which several dozen people participated on Sunday without respecting the barrier gestures, we learned Tuesday from of the Paris prosecutor's office.
This investigation was opened for "endangering the life of others" and "participation in a gathering of more than six people on the public highway", an offense punishable by a fine of 135 euros, according to this source.
The investigations were entrusted to the 19th arrondissement police station.
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The images of this spontaneous gathering, showing young people dancing around enclosures without wearing a mask and without respecting the distances in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, aroused indignation on social networks but also in the political class.
Monday, on LCI, Gabriel Attal, the spokesperson for the government, these facts are "not admissible".
If he had conceded hearing "the weariness of young people", but recalled that "there would be nothing worse than wasting our efforts [...] when the situation begins to improve".
"It will be necessary to find the organizers […] and to pursue them", he had also estimated.
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According to BFMTV, "a group of friends were celebrating a birthday (..) when a person turned up the loudspeakers they were using", "the music then attracted other young people and other groups who made them. joined to dance ”. The police intervened on the scene as the rally was about to end, according to a police source. The prefect of police Didier Lallement made a report to the justice on Monday, said the police headquarters.