The site is known to hikers, but visitors were looking for completely different sensations this Friday evening.
Several hundred people gathered for a rave party near the Lavina ridge, in Sospel, in the Bevera valley.
Techno fans will not have been able to vibrate for long: the police stopped the festivities and fined many participants.
It was around 10:30 p.m. when the gendarmerie intervened for “an unauthorized festive gathering of a musical nature”. The gendarmes know the sites popular with techno enthusiasts and scan social networks. They take care to prevent unexpected gatherings in natural sites, and traffic on unsuitable routes.
Around 70 vehicles were identified. The soldiers of the Menton company made sure to prevent other arrivals. The owners of the identified vehicles were to be fined.
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The gendarmerie intervened in force: the PSIG (gendarmerie surveillance and intervention platoons) and the motorized brigades of Nice and Menton, the community of brigades of La Trinité, the brigades of Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Cap d' Ail, Sospel and Breil-sur-Roya were mobilized.
Their mission: to stop the festivities without endangering either the speakers or the participants. There is no question of sending everyone back onto the roads, with the risk that some will not be able to drive. This Saturday morning, around a hundred participants were still there, supervised by the police.
The operations were led by the company commander of Menton and coordinated with the mayor of Sospel. The participants were cooperative.
Starting with the organizer who agreed to cut the music, while waiting to explain himself in the context of legal proceedings. The equipment was dismantled and stored at the Sospel brigade.
