According to the authorities, during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, several thousand people converged on the southeast of Maine-et-Loire to take part in an undeclared rave party. The prefect of the department, Philippe Chopin, “enjoins the public not to join the site” of this illegal gathering and warns that “any participant is exposed to sanctions”.
Several thousand people converged during the night from Wednesday to Thursday towards the south-east of Maine-et-Loire to take part in an undeclared rave party, we learned from the authorities. “Several hundred vehicles and thousands of people began to converge on Parnay”, a small village in Maine-et-Loire, “to set up a free party on agricultural land illegally,” the department prefecture announced in a press release. .
Presence of drugs and alcohol on the site
The small neighboring town of Souzay-Champigny warned its residents on its Facebook page on Thursday that this “undeclared rave party is currently taking place south of Souzay-Champigny on a cleared site and will last until Sunday”, warning against nuisance unusual sounds and flows of people. “This large gathering has in fact not been the subject of any preparation on the part of the organizers with the State services and the communities. In addition, the presence of narcotics and alcohol on the site presents risks raised for the safety of people”, deplores the prefecture of Maine-et-Loire.
The prefect of the department, Philippe Chopin, “enjoins the public not to join the site” of this illegal gathering and warns that “any participant is exposed to sanctions”. As in many other departments in the west of France where such free parties were feared during this Ascension Bridge period, the prefect of Maine-et-Loire had issued an order prohibiting any festive musical gathering of type rave party until Monday May 13.
The prefecture’s services, the departmental gendarmerie, firefighters and civil security are mobilizing with the communities concerned and the Saumur public prosecutor’s office to ensure the safety of this gathering, underlines the prefecture. According to the Souzay-Champigny town hall, a system was put in place by the gendarmes around the event to secure the site and carry out checks.
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