Attendance at an undeclared rave party has tripled since Friday

From single to triple. Some 1,500 people have joined since Friday an undeclared rave party which began Friday night in the countryside of Roybon, in Isère, said the prefecture of the department.

The festive gathering had started on the night of Friday to Saturday around 2 a.m. “on private land, a sown agricultural field”, said the prefecture, with 450 participants at the start of the event. In a press release, the prefect announced that he had activated a crisis unit on the spot including firefighters, gendarmes and rescuers until the end of the rave-party, which according to the prefecture “could last until Monday”.

Field Owner Complaint

The gendarmes of Isère and Drôme, bordering department, are deployed on the roads which serve the zone since Saturday morning. Since the start of the event, 300 vehicles have been checked and 43 fixed fines have been issued for the use of narcotics.

According to the local press, this rally is taking place near the Bois des Avenières, near the former ZAD (zone to be defended), occupied between 2014 and 2020 by opponents of the Center Parcs project led by the Pierre et Vacances group, finally abandoned in the summer of 2020. The owner of the field, whose harvest was “devastated”, filed a complaint yesterday with the gendarmerie, the prefecture further indicated.

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