Many elected officials express their indignation and call for a reaction from the government to the organization of a clandestine rave party bringing together 2,500 people in Brittany in the midst of a health crisis.
Around 2,500 people, from all over France and even from abroad, met in Lieuron, south of Rennes to celebrate the New Year during a wild rave party that the authorities could not prevent and which was still going on Friday night. The gendarmes tried Thursday evening “to prevent this installation and faced the violent hostility of many chirkers”, explains the prefecture of Ille-et-Vilaine in a press release.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin convened Friday evening in Beauvau a meeting on the rave with the prefect and members of the cabinet. “I am working with them this night to restore a normal situation by allowing the maximum physical integrity of all,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
“We start 2021 with a terrible image”
The spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior Camille Chaize, interviewed on our antenna this Friday evening, described “a rather unprecedented violence” on the part of the participants in the event, who stoned the police during their attempt to intervene Thursday evening. “The revelers have been irresponsible,” she added.
“It is urgent and essential that the State be respected and that there be an evacuation of this site tomorrow (Saturday)”, urged on BFMTV François Gatel, senator of the centrist Union of Ille-et-Vilaine. “We cannot tolerate in our country a situation of this nature which is a real provocation”.
“It is always difficult to understand how a demonstration of this type, with so many people can mobilize. But these young rebels insult the nursing staff mobilized for months in this health crisis”, indignant in turn Franck Louvrier, mayor The Republicans of La Baule at the microphone of BFMTV. “We start the new year with a terrible image,” he continued, questioning the “authority of the state”.
“Need common sense”
The president of the National Rally Marine Le Pen has also deplored on Twitter the “worrying collapse of the authority of the State, as of its organization”, considering that the executive was “overwhelmed by a simple rave party”.
Nicolas Dupont-Aignant, president of Debout la France, called for “common sense”, this friday night in a tweet. He writes: “While a liberticidal curfew locks up our fellow citizens from 6 p.m. in 15 of our departments, the Government allows the Lieuron rave party to continue with impunity, which brings together 2000 people under the helpless gaze of the gendarmes”.
“The Republic is capitulating in front of a few hundred teuffeurs, dog punks”, also reacted on BFMTV Gilles Pennelle, president of the group Rassemblement national at the Regional Council of Brittany, qualifying this situation of “incredible”. And to directly challenge the Minister of the Interior: “How long will Mr. Darmanin let this scandal continue?”
Ille-et-Vilaine MP LaREM Florian Bachelier was of the opinion on his Twitter account that “this gathering of Zadistas” shamed “our country, our caregivers mobilized for months, our dead. May the judicial authority make them quickly and radically understand the meaning of the word responsibility. The State must restore peace. public order immediately “.
The prefecture specifies that the prosecution has opened an investigation for “unlawful organization of a festive gathering of a musical nature”, “willful violence on persons holding public authority”, “degradation of the property of others in a meeting” or ” covert work “,” unlawful keeping of a drinking establishment “and” infringements of the legislation on narcotic drugs and in particular the facilitation of use “.
