Fourteen people were injured after clashes between rave party participants and travelers, whose camp was located next to the disused warehouse where the party took place.
The party was ruined because of the noise. 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.
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. A place described on X by a journalist from West France who was there.
Problem: participants “were installed next to a Traveler camp”explained Julien Valdenaire, captain and commander of rescue operations.
Violent altercations
From 8 p.m. Saturday evening, “there were first altercations and it degenerated, with many injured. The gendarmes intervened to prevent this from causing numerous victims.”added the captain. He cited “jets of projectiles” et “of stones”as well as “baseball bats”specifying that the injuries caused were wounds and a fracture. Seven people were taken to hospital. The journalist from Ouest-France tells on X that travelers “annoyed by the noise” are “very violently invited” at the rave.
Around 6 a.m., calm returned. The organizers 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”.
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