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.
Around 4,000 people took part in a rave party in an abandoned 9,000 m2 warehouse in Brie (Ille-et-Vilaine), not far from the Rennes-Angers dual carriageway. The participants “were installed next to a Travelers camp“, Julien Valdenaire, captain and commander of rescue operations, explained to AFP.
“It got out of hand”
From 8 p.m. Saturday evening, “there were first altercations and it degenerated, with many injured. The police intervened to prevent this from causing numerous victims“added the captain.
He quoted “jets of projectiles” et “of stones“, as well as “baseball bats“, specifying that the injuries caused were wounds and a fracture. Seven people were transported 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“.
