Attendance at the festival, currently around 23,000 participants, should increase in the coming hours. The rescuers counted 64 cumulative entries at the medical station.
The “teufeurs” continued to flock this Saturday for the 30th anniversary of Teknival, high mass of rave parties organized since Thursday in Villegongis, a small village in Indre, where the number of participants exceeded 23,000 at the start of the morning according to the prefecture .
Attendance at this Teknival could reach 30,000 in the coming hours.
The press release from the prefecture also indicates that 4 participants are currently in absolute urgency, 58 in relative urgency and 2 involved.
“The SDIS counts a cumulative 64 entries to the advanced medical post (29 this night) (…); 13 people were evacuated to the hospital center of Châteauroux”, he also explains.
The gathering was prohibited by the authorities who, however, deployed an important medical, sanitary and logistical system – with in particular the requisition of bottles of drinking water – in order to ensure the safety of the event.
“We are anticipating a second wave” from Friday evening and “probably throughout the day” on Saturday, warned the prefect of Indre, Stéphane Bredin.
Saturday at 9:00 a.m., the number of participants in the Teknival, which was installed by surprise on a private plot of 70 hectares on the edge of a wood, was “estimated at more than 23,000, taking into account arrivals during the night”, according to a press release from the Indre prefecture.
23 people fined for driving under the influence of narcotics
Hundreds of vehicles, some coming from abroad, rub shoulders with tents and surrounding walls that spit out their repetitive electronic rhythms without stopping.
The gendarmerie system deployed as soon as the first teknivaliers were installed on Thursday morning “allowed the control, near the site and in an enlarged security zone, of 2,970 people and 780 vehicles”, indicates the prefecture.
“320 gendarmes are engaged today (Saturday) on the device, which is gaining momentum”, she underlines.
The latest assessment reported 23 people fined for driving under the influence of narcotics, 4 for driving while intoxicated and 118 for possession of narcotics.