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After police unsuccessfully tried to arrest people who attended the party, the latter held a party in the Lieuron area south of the Reno River in the Brittany region, the local prefecture said in a statement.
On Friday, many of the partygoers were still there and sanitary barriers were erected around the venue.
Local gendarmes tried “to prevent the incident, but faced fierce hostility from many partygoers,” who set fire to one of their cars and threw bottles and stones at the officers.
According to the report, the audience came from all over France and even abroad.
These mass gatherings are strictly prohibited throughout France to prevent the spread of COVID-19. There is currently a nationwide curfew that has not been revoked during the New Year’s Eve parties.
Reports say the party took place in an empty warehouse owned by a storage company.
Prosecutors have launched an investigation into the illegal organization of a musical gathering and deliberate violence against officials.
Vehicles registered in various parts of France were still in place on Friday, set to music, an AFP news agency reported.
“I did not observe the social distance”
Participants interviewed by AFP said that guests from foreign countries, including Spain and Great Britain, attended the party.
One participant, who calls himself from the Alsace region of eastern France and refuses to give his last name, said the participants in the party initially met Thursday night in a supermarket parking lot.
Then he pulled the column towards Lieuron, where the police tried to arrest them, spoke.
The party participant admitted that in the event, which is scheduled to last until Saturday, only “very few have maintained a social distance.”
The French authorities were particularly concerned about the mass demonstrations on New Year’s Eve.
In the southern city of Marseille, police forces disrupted an illegal party that brought together some 300 people. More than 150 people have been warned and three suspected organizers have been arrested.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said 132,000 policemen had been deployed to France to celebrate the New Year and ensure security and compliance with the curfew.
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