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It was a visibly busy weekend. The police interrupted several clandestine evenings in France which were held on the night of Saturday 10 to Sunday 11 April, despite the curfew and other restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 epidemic.
An evening bringing together around 70 people in Ternant, in the Côte d’Or, in the middle of the woods, was thus interrupted. The revelers greeted the police with various shots, before trying to flee.
Some “fifty” verbalizations were drawn up, mainly for non-compliance with the curfew but also for driving under the state of drugs, possession of drugs and lack of insurance. The alleged organizer was taken into custody, as well as a person accused of throwing stones at the gendarmes. The sound equipment was also seized.
The gendarmes intervened Sunday around 3:30 am in the town of Burgaud, north-west of Toulouse, to interrupt an evening which was in full swing in a lodge rented for the occasion.
The organizers had charged 20 euros for parking and 30 euros for entry. Sound equipment and mood lights had been installed. The invitation was sent out at the last moment via the Snapchat application. Disturbed by the noise, the residents had alerted the gendarmerie.
Two people suspected of having turned this cottage into an underground discotheque were taken into custody and a hundred participants fined, learned theAFP parquet.
Other underground parties Thursday and Friday
Earlier in the weekend, the police intervened to interrupt an evening in a villa located near the port of Doëlan in Clohars-Carnoët, in Finistère. Alerted by neighbors, the gendarmes intervened on Friday April 9 before the start of the party which, according to 20 minutes, was to bring together a hundred guests.
Still according to our colleagues, the police have fined “a dozen people for non-compliance with the rules of confinement”.
Finally, on the night of Thursday 8 to Friday 9 April, a clandestine party with “a hundred people” in a night establishment in Bastia, Corsica, was interrupted by police, three of whom were “injured”.
“The police were victims of throwing projectiles and attacked by some participants”, denounced the prefect who “condemns with the greatest firmness these serious and irresponsible behaviors” and specifies that “one of the attackers” could be arrested.
Total work interruptions (ITT) of 2, 3 and 5 days were pronounced for three police officers, one of whom was “hit”, said the prosecutor. “The use of tear gas by the police force called in as reinforcements was necessary to free the officials” and to disperse the crowd, he added.
France, confined for the third time, is approaching the 100,000 dead mark.
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