A festive gathering gathered in the night from Saturday to Sunday more than 1,500 participants on an isolated ground in the north of the Dordogne, and was this Sunday being dispersed under the supervision of the gendarmes, we learned from the authorities. .
The unauthorized gathering took place in a wooded and isolated area, far from homes, on the borders of the departments of Dordogne and Charente.
It took place in the small town of La Rochebeaucourt-et-Argentine, it was specified with the sub-prefecture of the Dordogne and the gendarmerie.
A convergence of several hundred vehicles was observed by the gendarmes around 11 p.m. Saturday. According to the newspaper Sud Ouest, the revelers had erected a perimeter wall of several meters. A major system was then put in place, gradually ramped up to around a hundred gendarmes from Dordogne and Charente, to secure the site and the main roads in particular, with the setting up of a detour. According to France Bleu, a helicopter was monitoring the area.
The music ended, the first revelers began to leave the site Sunday in the morning, under the supervision of the gendarmes who proceeded to the axes of exits to controls alcohol level, narcotics in particular, and noted any possible infringements, specified the prefecture.
No incident was reported, the firefighters, also mobilized on site, only having to intervene for a slight injury to a knee.
Several “raves” took place this summer all over France.
At the beginning of August, in Roybon, in Isère, the party had even lasted four days on the site of a former ZAD.
In some cases, civil protection rescuers have been dispatched to carry out screening tests against Covid-19.
