On Saturday, an illegal rave party south of Rennes went wrong. Fourteen participants were slightly injured after an intervention by travelers who wanted to stop the music and provoked violence, we learned this Sunday from the firefighters.
Around 4,000 people took part in this rave in an abandoned 9,000 m2 warehouse in Brie, in Ille-et-Vilaine, not far from the Rennes-Angers dual carriageway. The participants “were installed next to a Traveler camp,” explained Julien Valdenaire, captain and commander of the relief operations.
Wounds and a fracture
From 8 p.m. on Saturday evening, “there were the first altercations and it degenerated, with many injured. The gendarmes intervened to prevent this from causing numerous victims,” added the captain. He cited “throws of projectiles” and “stones”, as well as “baseball bats”, specifying that the injuries caused were wounds and a fracture. Seven people were taken to hospital.
Around 6 a.m. this Sunday, calm had returned, according to the gendarmes. 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 Ille-et-Vilaine prefecture 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”.
