AND I MUTE THE SOUND – Almost every weekend, decrees are issued in Brittany to ban techno gatherings
We could nickname him “the prefect who didn’t like parties”. Not that his predecessors were particularly into techno music. But since taking office in Brittany in the summer of 2023, Philippe Gustin has clearly had free parties in his sights. An allergy that goes back almost twenty-five years. When he was starting his career in the prefectural corps, the ENA graduate had to deal with a death during a party. Remembering the “deleterious atmosphere” that reigned there, he says he has since been “multi-traumatized by rave parties”.
By landing in the West, the sacred land of party-goers with between “two to four raves” every weekend in the region, the prefect therefore found something to keep him busy. While Emmanuel Berthier, appointed prefect of Brittany at the end of 2020, had started a dialogue with the organizers in order to better supervise these festive gatherings, his successor decided from the start to tighten the screw by opting for a more security-oriented discourse. “We cannot discuss with people who do illegal things,” he assured at the beginning of January. And I cannot accept that people are disturbed in this way and that private property is entered into.”
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