Fourteen participants in an illegal rave party south of Rennes were injured after an intervention by travelers who wanted to stop the music and provoked violence.
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Around 3,000 people (prefecture figure) took part last night in a rave party in an abandoned 9,000 m² warehouse in Brie (Ille-et-Vilaine), not far from the Rennes-Angers dual carriageway.
The participants “were installed next to a Travelers camp“, Julien Valdenaire, captain and commander of rescue operations, explained to AFP.
From 8 p.m. Saturday evening, “there were first altercations and it degenerated, with many injured. The gendarmes intervened to prevent it from leading to 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.
14 people were injured, 8 of whom were transported to hospital, according to the prefecture.
In a press release, the Ille-et-Vilaine prefecture specifies: ” A major police force has been put in place to secure the area around the site, manage traffic routes and prevent any incidents with local residents. 90 gendarmes from Ille-et-Vilaine, supported by reinforcements from Morbihan and Côtes-d'Armor, carried out public order and security missions throughout the night. The prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine also mobilized teams of rescuers from the departmental civil protection association and the Red Cross, in support of the 80 firefighters present on the site.”
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Organizers stopped the music overnight, ending the rave.
Around 6 a.m., calm had returned, according to the gendarmes and an AFP journalist present on site.
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”.
In his press release, Amaury de Saint-Quentin said he condemned “with the greatest firmness the organizers of this rave party who acted in violation of a prefectural ban order and in violation of private property. Through their casualness and irresponsibility, the organizers endangered the participants, local residents, motorists and the security and emergency forces, both on the site and on the traffic routes..
He recalls that events of this type must be declared in order to guarantee security, health, sanitation, hygiene and public tranquility.
