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A judicial investigation has been opened to identify and prosecute the organizers of a clandestine party that attracted at least 2,500 people in western France despite the curfew amid the coronavirus pandemic.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin tweeted that police actions at the Lieuron site in Brittany “led to the end of the illegal nonviolent party” on Saturday morning, some 36 hours after it began.
He said that more than 1,200 people have been fined for not respecting the curfew, not wearing a mask and illegally participating in a meeting. Sound equipment and power generators were confiscated, he added.
Ravers from France and abroad gathered in a hangar in Lieuron on Thursday night to celebrate the New Year.
Authorities said the criminals attacked the police the first night, set fire to a police vehicle and injured the officers with discharges of bottles and stones.
The party was held despite France’s nightly curfew that was aimed at dissuading people from gathering amid the pandemic.
France has reported more than 64,000 deaths related to the virus.
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