Fourteen people were injured, seven of whom were taken to hospital.
Fourteen participants in an illegal rave party south of Rennes were slightly injured after an intervention by travelers who wanted to stop the music and provoked violence, we learned from the firefighters on Sunday.
Environ 4,000 people had taken part in a rave party in an abandoned 9,000 m2 warehouse in Brie (Ille-et-Vilaine), near Janzé, south of Rennes. The festivities began on Friday evening. The participants “were installed next to a Traveler camp”Julien Valdenaire, captain and commander of rescue operations, explained to AFP.
From 8 p.m. Saturday evening, “There were the first altercations and it degenerated, with many injured. The gendarmes intervened to prevent this from leading to numerous victims”added the captain. He cited “jets of projectiles” et “of stones”as well as “baseball bats”specifying that the injuries caused were wounds and a fracture. Seven people were taken to hospital.
Around 6:00 a.m., calm had returned, according to the gendarmes and an AFP journalist present on site. The organizers had stopped the music during the night, putting an end to the rave. Up to 120 firefighters and nearly a hundred police officers were mobilized.
The prefecture of Ille-et-Vilaine issued an order on October 29 prohibiting “festive gatherings of a musical nature in Ille-et-Vilaine from Thursday October 31 to Monday November 4, 2024”.
