The festival is being set upon a plot of land that is not cultivatedand whose owner was not informed, explains the mayor of Villegongis.
By Le Figaro with AFP
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THE Teknival, high mass of techno music which took place every year in France in a different place until the end of the Covid pandemic, began to settle Thursday morning in a small village in Indre, Villegongis, we learned from the mayor. According to Jean-Marc Sevault, mayor of the village of a hundred inhabitants located north of Châteauroux, the first vehicles arrived during the night in the town, where no one had been warned.
Dozens of vehicles, cars, vans and even semi-trailers, flocked en masse Thursday morning to Villegongis, severely disrupting traffic. At midday, the Indre prefecture, which had banned all gatherings of this kind for the long Ascension weekend, estimated “at around 10,000 the number of teknivaliers“. According to the press release from the prefecture, the Teknival “could stand on all end of this week“. A source close to the organizers told AFP that they expect around 30,000 participants at the height of the event, which coincides with the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Teknival by rave enthusiasts.
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The festival takes placeon a private estate, a piece of land that is not cultivated“And whose owner was not informed, Jean-Marc Sevault told AFP, contacted by telephone. “We were presented with a fait accompli, like everyone else, including the gendarmeswho are on hand to oversee the event.
” Now that it’s launched, there is nothing more to do except to ensure that it goes as well as possible, in good conditions and without incident. »
Jean-Marc Sevault, mayor of Villegongis
In Indre, as in many neighboring departments, the prefecture issued decrees this week to prohibit “the illegal installation of any temporary festive gathering of a musical natureto no avail. “Now that it’s launched, there is nothing more to do except to ensure that it goes as well as possible, in good conditions and without incident.“, estimated Jean-Marc Sevault.
Renowned throughout Europe, the Teknival was created thirty years ago. His outfit had been disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic which had prevented large gatherings. The Last Teknival”officialtook place in May 2019 on the Millevaches plateau, in Creuse.