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About 2,500 people attended an illegal party in northern France, followed by violent clashes with the police who came to stop the fun.
According to News.ro, some 2,500 people attended an illegal New Year’s party at an abandoned warehouse in northwestern France and clashed violently with police, authorities said Friday, expressing concern about the possibility that the number of SARS-CoV-2 contaminations may increase as a result of the event.
People organized the illegal party in Lieuron, near Rennes, Brittany, after altercations with the police, local authorities said. Many were still on the scene Friday, when the perimeter was isolated, the Guardian quotes.
Local gendarmes tried “to prevent this event, but faced fierce hostility from many partygoers” who set fire to one of their own cars and threw bottles and stones, authorities said in a statement. The party was attended by people from all over France, but also from abroad.
Small “best-of” videos of the clandestine rave-party that took place in Lieuron, Brittany. Incredible stupidity pic.twitter.com/EWHV3b0wQ2
– Julien Pernici (@JulienPernici) January 1, 2021
These rallies are banned in France to prevent the spread of Covid-19, and a mobility restriction is applied (starting at 8:00 p.m.) throughout the country. They also didn’t pick her up for New Year’s Eve.
Prosecutors have opened an investigation into the party.
An AFP journalist reported that vehicles registered in various parts of France were still parked there on Friday and many people were still partying.
In the city of Marseille, security forces stopped an illegal party attended by about 300 people. More than 150 received reprimands and three, suspected of organizing it, were arrested.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said 132,000 policemen were dispatched to France to ensure security on New Year’s Eve and that the mobility restriction was respected.
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