The rave party in Yonne is over, an investigation opened – The HuffPost

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CORONAVIRUS – The party, although prohibited because of the boom in the Omicron variant in France, will therefore have lasted more than 30 hours. A illegal rave party, which gathered since Friday evening near 1,500 people on an industrial site in Saint-Florentin in the Yonne ended this Sunday morning, with the departure of a majority of participants.

“1,000 individuals left the scene. About 200 people are about to do so, ”said Prefecture in a press release. “The investigations are continuing under the authority of the public prosecutor to establish the responsibilities of the organizers and characterize the violations noted”, added the prefecture, welcoming the end of the demonstration “thanks to the determined action of the services of the ‘State and its partners’.

“More than 600 controls”

Since Saturday, an investigation has been opened “for unlawful organization of a festive gathering of a musical nature” by the prosecutor’s office in Auxerre, according to the same source which recalled on Sunday that “rave party, free party, teknival type events” were prohibited by decree in the Yonne.

Nearly 500 vehicles parked on the spot had been counted by the gendarmes, who had quickly deployed an “important device” for securing. “More than 600 checks were carried out by the police”, according to the Yonne prefecture on Sunday.

Managed by firefighters, an advanced medical post was opened on Saturday to ensure health monitoring, in connection with the regional health agency and also supported on site by the help of 30 volunteers from the Red Cross.

“We’re not going to stop living”

“We are aware of things, but we are not going to stop living”, explained participants to The Republican Yonne. Asked by Radio France, the mayor of the town who went there said he was surprised to find “really well-behaved young people”. “I did not find people who were completely alcoholic, but rather young people who are happy to be together,” he said.

“They all promised me that they will make the place as clean as they found it, and I saw that they put garbage bags all over the place.” The mayor specifies that four people were taken care of by the emergency services on the spot this Saturday, “which is not huge for such a large assembly.” “Sometimes we have ready-made ideas about youth,” he concludes. “This is a youth who wanted to have a January 1 between them, that’s all.”

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