Fourteen participants of an illegal rave party south of Rennes were slightly injured after travelers, disturbed by the noise, wanted to stop the music and provoked violence, according to AFP information relayed by Le Parisien Sunday November 3.
Fourteen festival-goers at an illegal rave party south of Rennes, in Ille-et-Vilaine, were injured during a violent brawl with travelers, according to AFP information relayed by The Parisian Sunday November 3. Around 4,000 people took part in the party in a disused warehouse which is close to a Traveler camp. The latter, exasperated by the noise, landed on the spot and allegedly threw “projectiles”of the “stones” as well as “baseball bats”in the words of Julien Valdenaire, captain and commander of rescue operations.
“We saw them arriving with sticks, knives and other weapons”told a festival-goer West France. “We came here to party, not to get hit”he insisted. “They are destroying my truck and there is my dog inside. They are going to kill him,” another was frightened.
Wounds and a fracture
Nearly 120 firefighters and around a hundred police officers were mobilized. Captain Julien Valdenaire explained that he had put in place a system to welcome the victims, take care of them and transport them to the hospital. The injuries caused by the shots are wounds and a fracture. According to AFP, around 6 a.m. on Sunday, calm had returned and the party was over. The prefecture of Ille-et-Vilaine had issued an order prohibiting “festive gatherings of a musical nature” in the department from Thursday October 31 to Monday November 4.
published on November 3 at 11:20 a.m., Lola Dhers, 6Medias
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