At the height of the night, an undeclared rave party brought together around 600 participants in Château-Guibert, Vendée, we learned from the prefecture on Sunday.
The land where the rave takes place "belongs to a logger who tried to intervene in vain" during the installation of the party which began between 8 pm and 11 pm Saturday evening, according to the prefecture of Vendée.
If the rally gathered some 600 people in the middle of the night, "it is estimated that there are now between 300 and 400 people at the end of the morning and that there should be a sound cut in the middle of the afternoon. », According to the same source.
The gendarmes on site
About forty gendarmes are present as well as a team of civil protection rescuers, who also provide antigenic self-tests for Covid-19.
"This gathering exposes all the participants: we call on the spot to respect the sanitary instructions", told AFP the sub-prefect Grégory Lecru.
On July 16, the Pays de la Loire regional health agency and the Vendée prefecture expressed concern in a joint statement about "the sharp increase in the incidence rate in Vendée, particularly on the coast".
The two institutions also recalled "that the maintenance of barrier gestures, accompanied by isolation measures, in the event of positivity, is essential".
Ouest-France then explained that the number of positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants was 45.2 for the Vendée.
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