The party started on Saturday.
And the thousands of participants still present this Monday near the former ZAD (zone to be defended) of Roybon, west of Grenoble, suggest that it is not about to stop.
The rally brings together around 2,000 people on Monday, reports BFM.
Contacted by Le Parisien, the gendarmerie confirms that "it's always the big atmosphere", with 1,500 to 2,000 revelers on site.
They were 6,000 on Saturday, at the height of the rave party.
“There were few departures during the night, these are roughly the same figures as at the end of the evening.
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The rave party was launched in tribute to Steve Maia Caniço, who died two years ago after a controversial police operation on the day of the Music Festival in Nantes.
The event was relayed on social networks as part of the “Night of the packs”.
The place was not chosen at random since it had been occupied for six years by Zadistas opposed to the Center Parcs project, abandoned in July 2020. The occupants of the ZAD had been evacuated last October.
No evacuation planned
At 10 p.m. Sunday evening, the Isère gendarmes checked more than 200 vehicles leaving the Roybon rave sector.
According to the prefecture, the checks continued throughout the night.
This Monday, the gendarmes drew up a total of about fifty verbalizations for alcohol level, possession of narcotics, driving under narcotics, and traffic police offenses.
About 80 gendarmes filtered access to the site on Sunday evening.
There is "always a large control and closure device" on Monday, in order to identify offenses related to alcohol and narcotics, but no evacuation is planned for the moment.
“The event continues without any particular incident,” explains the gendarmerie.
When it happens rather calmly, we limit ourselves to controlling access to prevent possible overflows.
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The Grenoble prosecutor's office has opened an investigation to determine the responsibility of the organizers, still unidentified, highlighting the absence on site of a “civil security team to protect the participants”.
The prefecture, which did not wish to communicate, evoked the violation of the property, the owner of the places having lodged a complaint, as well as the violation of the regulations in terms of environment and noise and non-compliance with the rules. sanitary facilities.
This wild rave-party in the region is in addition to that which brought together on the night of July 24 to 25 in Savoie some 2,500 people in a field at the Sapenay pass.
There had been no incident.