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According to the prefecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine department, the participants of the party, held in a hangar in the town of Lieuron, south of the city of Rennes (west), began to demobilize this morning.
The event brought together some 2,500 people despite the curfew in France on New Year’s Eve due to a new covid-19 outbreak threatening the country.
“There was no police intervention,” the city said, adding that the agents, who control the access roads to the site, carried out control operations and summons the participants.
In his official Twitter account, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said that the “numerous security forces” in place and “the intensive controls led to stopping the illegal party in Lieuron without violence.”
We continue with the verifications and summons of each participant as soon as they leave the place ”, he added.
The city confirmed the “sound interruption” without ruling out the possibility of a music restart.
At least one sound system has been dismantled, he said.
The first demobilizations took place at 05:30 local time (04:30 in Lisbon), according to the city council.
About half of the parking lot was empty this morning, a reporter for the France Presse (AFP) news agency found.
Gérald Darmanin had called a meeting in Paris on Friday night with the mayor and members of his cabinet to analyze the measures to be taken to end the party.
On Thursday, police tried unsuccessfully to avoid the event, but “faced violent hostility from many participants,” the city said.
During these clashes “a police vehicle caught fire, three others were damaged and police officers were hit with bottles and stones, resulting in minor injuries,” he added.
In Llinars del Vallès, on the outskirts of Barcelona, a similar party continued this morning, although now with much fewer participants, which started at around 9:00 p.m. on December 31 in an abandoned warehouse.
Police explained Friday that they planned to take action if participants did not leave the venue of their own free will.
A police source, quoted by the Efe news agency, said that a meeting will be held this morning to assess how and when to proceed with the eviction of the warehouse.
More than two hundred people of various nationalities participated in the event, which was denounced by neighbors and which, according to some sources, intends to continue until January 4.
Initially, the police indicated that they did not want to use force to end the party “to avoid serious incidents.”
The people who began to leave the warehouse this morning were identified and denounced for participating in a prohibited party and not respecting the preventive measures in force in Spain in the context of the covid-19 pandemic.
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