Fourteen participants in an illegal rave party, south of Rennes, were slightly injured during a conflict with travelers who wanted to stop the music, we learned on Sunday November 3, 2024 from the firefighters.
Arriving Friday evening, around 3,000 people took part in a rave party in an abandoned warehouse in Brie (Ille-et-Vilaine), located on the edge of the Rennes-Angers dual carriageway, despite a prefectural ban, indicates the prefecture in a press release.
“During the night, clashes broke out between ravers and local residents, requiring a strong mobilization of state services”explains the press release. “Eight people had to be evacuated to hospital for minor injuries”.
The participants “were installed next to a Traveler camp”explained Julien Valdenaire, captain and commander of rescue operations, who indicated that 14 people were injured.
Seven people in hospital
From 8 p.m. Saturday evening, “there were first altercations and it degenerated, with many injured. The gendarmes intervened to prevent this from causing 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 of the ankle. Seven people were taken to hospital.
Around 6 a.m., calm had returned, according to the gendarmes and a journalist from theAFP present on site.
The organizers stopped the music around 1 a.m., putting an end to the rave. Up to 120 firefighters and nearly a hundred police officers were mobilized.
The prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine, Amaury de Saint-Quentin, ” sentenced “ the organizers of this rave party. “Through their casualness and irresponsibility, the organizers endangered the participants, local residents, motorists and the security and emergency forces, both on the site and on the traffic routes”he lamented.
On October 29, the Ille-et-Vilaine prefecture issued an order prohibiting “festive gatherings of a musical nature in Ille-et-Vilaine from Thursday October 31 to Monday November 4, 2024”.
