The management of the rave party in Redon continues to make people talk. This Wednesday, this prohibited event which took place on June 18 and 19 should even be the subject of an interministerial meeting, according to some organizers.
In a press release released on Tuesday, the Maskarade collective evokes a meeting “under the aegis of the Elysée” organized at the request of Technopol. The delegation should be made up of several groups such as the National Sound Coordination, Techno +, Technopol and Freeform.
Event management questions participants
On the night of June 18 to 19, around 1,500 people gathered on the Redon racecourse (Ille-et-Vilaine) for an evening in tribute to Steve Maia Caniço, who died two years earlier on the sidelines of a charge policewoman during the Music Festival in Nantes. Throughout the night, violent clashes broke out between the participants and the police, leaving several injured on both sides. A 22-year-old Rennais had his hand torn off in circumstances which remain to be clarified. Four people were arrested on the sidelines of the dispersion.
Beyond the injured, it is the management of the event that questions the participants. First because part of the material was destroyed by the gendarmes without explanation and in all illegality according to them. But also because the intervention of the emergency services was obviously not facilitated by the prefecture, which some accuse of having blocked the access of the firefighters, forcing the injured to go to the hospital on their own. What the prefecture denied.
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Other complaints after the violence
The Maskarade collective specifies that “several dozen complaints will be filed, whether by artists who have seen their musical instruments destroyed, by the owners of sound equipment or by rental companies”, after the destruction of the equipment. A complaint to the European Court of Human Rights is also being prepared.
The Freeform association also seized the IGGN (General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie) about the destruction of equipment and the violence suffered during that night of clashes. “Complaints will also be lodged by people injured for willful violence or disproportionate use of force”, specifies the group of teufeurs.