The party was finally able to take place without any major hitch. A rave party bringing together 3,500 people on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday at La Couvertoirade (Aveyron) “went generally well” despite the cold, according to the sub-prefect of Millau. There were “a few minor evacuations during the night,” Véronique Martin Saint-Léon told AFP.
“The action of civil protection was effective”, “the fog meant that the temperatures did not drop too much” and “the organizers carried out the actions to which they had committed”, welcomed the deputy. prefect of Millau Wednesday midday.
On Tuesday, when negative temperatures were expected at night, Véronique Martin Saint-Léon asked the organizers to do “vigil and guard tours to prevent people from falling asleep in the cold”.
The number of participants in this rave party organized on a disused quarry in Larzac near the A75, near the border between Aveyron and Hérault, increased from a thousand on Tuesday evening to 3,500, after “an influx quite important last night,” also indicated the sub-prefect.
Some of them are “very slowly” starting to leave the area, she said. She added that organizers had made it known “that they would turn off the music at nightfall on Wednesday evening.”
The prefecture had signaled a “cold vigilance” for New Year’s Eve, with Météo France announcing negative temperatures “of the order of -5°C”, for a feeling of -9°C.
