09:52: Here’s why the Rave Party totally degenerated into clashes between partygoers and travelers. It all started when 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.
But the participants “were installed next to a Traveler camp,” explained Julien Valdenaire, captain and commander of the rescue operations. Violent altercations From 8 p.m. Saturday evening, “there were the first altercations and it degenerated, with many injured.
The gendarmes intervened to prevent this from causing 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. Seven people were taken to hospital.
The journalist from Ouest-France tells X that travelers “annoyed by the noise” were “very violently invited” to the rave.
8:28 a.m.: The violence occurred very early this Sunday morning. 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, AFP learned from firefighters. Around 4,000 people took part in a rave party in an abandoned 9,000 m2 warehouse in Brie, in Ille-et-Vilaine, not far from the Rennes-Angers dual carriageway.
The participants “were installed next to a Traveler camp,” explained Julien Valdenaire, captain and commander of the rescue operations. “Stone throwing” and “baseball bats”
From 8 p.m. on Saturday evening, “there were the first altercations and it degenerated, with many injured,” he said. “The gendarmes intervened to prevent this from causing 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. Seven people were taken to hospital.
Around 6 a.m. this Sunday, calm had returned, according to the gendarmes and an AFP journalist present on site. The organizers had stopped the music during the night, putting an end to the rave. Up to 120 firefighters and nearly a hundred police officers were mobilized.
