A gathering on the site of Quimper-Pluguffan airport (Finistère) brought together “more than 6,000 people and 2,000 vehicles” this Saturday morning, indicates the Finistère prefecture in a press release.
As of Wednesday, the prefect of Finistère issued an order prohibiting undeclared festive gatherings of a musical nature in the department during the Easter weekend. This did not prevent the “teufeurs” from flocking on Saturday between 4 a.m. and 7 a.m. to the Pluguffan airport platform, near Quimper, whose commercial activity has been interrupted since last November.
“Mobile reinforcements expected”
“A large flow of vehicles headed during the night towards Pluguffan airport to join an undeclared and unauthorized rave party type festive gathering,” continues the prefecture. “The first ones forced the entrance to the airport, almost overturning the gendarmerie vehicle,” Finistère prefect Alain Espinasse told AFP. Trucks and vehicles from all over France, and even Belgium, were parked on the airport’s takeoff runway.
Several vehicles were checked in the Châteaulin sector during the night, “allowing the seizure of 65 m³ of sound system type equipment as well as several vehicles and a large capacity generator” further indicates the prefecture. A crew from the SDIS (Departmental Fire and Rescue Service) and around thirty gendarmes were deployed on the site. “Mobile reinforcements are expected” with the aim of “securing the site and its surroundings as well as the traffic routes. »
The authorities’ objective now is to prevent more people from arriving. “The police are coordinating, in the Breton departments and at the national level, to avoid new arrivals” declared the prefect near West France, recalling that the gathering is “illegal” and moreover on private land. The population is invited to “avoid” the airport area.