“Clashes” took place during the night from Saturday to Sunday on the sidelines of an illegal rave party south of Rennes.
Things degenerated with local residents, particularly travelers living next to the venue of the evening.
Fifteen people were injured.
An evening of partying that ends badly. Fifteen people were injured during the night from Saturday to Sunday, including “eight taken to hospital”during a rave party organized in the south of Rennes. “During the night, clashes broke out between ravers and local residents, requiring a strong mobilization of state services”indicated the prefecture of Ille-et-Vilaine in a press release.
In detail, Friday evening, around 3,000 revelers arrived in an abandoned warehouse in Brie, located on the edge of the Rennes – Angers dual carriageway. And this, despite a prefectural ban. The first altercations between revelers and a group of travelers living next to the hangar broke out in the early evening the next day. “It got out of hand” in the night and “the police intervened to prevent this from causing numerous victims”told AFP Julien Valdenaire, the fire captain commanding rescue operations. He quoted “jets of projectiles” et “of stones”as well as the use of “baseball bats”. In addition to the victims, several vehicles were damaged.
Up to 120 firefighters and around 80 police officers were mobilized to the scene overnight. The police issued several fines, including 479 fines for participation in a prohibited demonstration and 34 misdemeanor fixed fines (AFD) for possession of drugs, the prefecture said in a press release. These controls also “led to two arrests followed by police custody measures”specifies the prefecture. Finally, the organizers' sound equipment was seized.
Calm returned at dawn and the ravers gradually left the site during the day.
