« At the height of the evening, there were less than twenty of them and everything happened peacefully. » Lieutenant-Colonel Christian Walenski, second in command of the Ardennes gendarmerie group, looks back on the long night spent in the town of Liry, a dozen kilometers south of Vouziers, this Saturday October 19, 2024. rave-party was prevented.
« There was actually an attempt to install a wall of sound. However, prefectural decrees prohibited the movement of vehicles transporting equipment and organizing rave parties. We have put in place a system to detect the arrival of sound equipment because, in view of the latest events of the same nature, the South Ardennesis particularly targeted. » This over a period traditionally extending from April to the end of October, with participants coming from all neighboring departments.
50 gendarmes mobilized
Suffice to say that a truck carrying giant speakers does not go unnoticed and that abnormal movements are easily detectable, especially in these sectors rural.
Faced with around fifty soldiers mobilized, coming from Rethel, Vouziers but also from the companies of Revin and Sedan as well as the Departmental Road Safety Squadron, the “ teufeurs » therefore did not have time to install and the equipment was would get. However, access particularly muddy on the ground did not facilitate the operations: the gendarmes arrived around 8 p.m. and were only able to leave the premises at 1 a.m. after having finished evacuating the sound system.
« We pay particular attention to these phenomena which are likely to endanger participants. », concludes Lieutenant Walenski.
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