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Le Figaro – France : Un jeune homme retrouvé mort dans une rave-party

Les 25.000 “teufeurs” quittaient petit à petit cet après-midi le site de Bouafles, dans l’Eure où a été organisée depuis vendredi une rave sauvage durant laquelle un jeune Français de 26 ans a été retrouvé mort, selon la préfecture, qui dénombrait encore 15.000 festivaliers.
Les départs ont débuté dans la matinée et se sont poursuivis tout au long de la journée de dimanche, dans le calme et “sans souci d’ordre public”, a précisé la préfecture. “On aura encore du monde ce soir”, a déclaré Fabienne Buccio, la préfète du département. “Selon nos estimations, il y a encore 15.000 personnes sur place”, avec des sound system en fonctionnement, a-t-elle ajouté. [/quote]

by this afternoon (sunday), some of the 25000 ravers were leaving the site of bouafles, in the Eure where since Friday an illegal rave had been carrying on, during which a 26 year old French man had been found dead.

According to a Council spokesperson, the exodus of ravers started in the morning and carried on thoughout sunday, “without any public order problems”.

Fabienne Buccio, the Council leader, said “we expect to have have more people this afternoon” – we estimate 15 000 people remain on site, with rigs in place.

(I have removed from the text some repeated bits about the 26 year old casualty

here are some more casualty / arrest figures..

Quote:

Au total, la préfecture a dénombré 48 évacuations sanitaires.
98 personnes ont par ailleurs été interpellées au cours du week-end et 19 ont été placées en garde à vue. 131 cachets d’ecstasy, 322 grammes de cannabis, 325 grammes d’héroïne, 245 grammes d’amphétamines, 5 grammes de champignons hallucinogènes, 25 timbres de LSD, ont notamment été saisis.
Plus de 300 gendarmes ont été mobilisés.

In total, the Council has counted 48 medical evacuations.

98 people have been questioned by cops during the weekend and 19 arrested.

131 E tables, 322g of cannabis, 325g of heroin, 245g of amfetamine, 5g of magic mushrooms and 25 LSD blotters have bee seized.

over 300 gendarmes have now been mobilised.

this is from an alternative / progressive French site

Teknival: « Des morts dans des ferias, ça ne fait pas scandale » | Rue89

I haven’t had time to translate the entire article (which berates the councils in other regions and the rest of the media for overreacting

this bit

is a claim from the “drugs harm prevention workers” that by Sunday afternoon the cops had started confiscating rigs and caused fear amongst sound system owners, who did not dare to leave their positions.

It does sound from this that by Sunday the French had enforced the equivalent of a S63 on the rave, but it has wound down without too much violence / bloodshed

found another interesting bit of info about the 2006 (legal) teknival – the local Council sued the central Government for letting the teknival happen (the locals didn’t want it in the first place) I might start another thread about this in the law section but will read the rest of the article tomorrow – any more French tonight and I will end up wearing a striped jersey, tying onions to my bicycle and muttering “ouais, bof!” at people whilst constantly drunk…

partly school but I also had to work with a lot of French engineers in my last job (some of whom would attempt over ambitious schemes and then cry like babies when everything went tits up – and I often had to console them in French) – plus I developed a genuine interest in languages from my mid teens.

the French onion sellers still exist, as do their distinctive utility bikes (which are “sportier” than their British or German equivalents) and even today the winner of the Tour de France étape (stage) in the Basque regions gets a beret as a prize :laugh_at:

sadly the French and many of the hardcore “tekno traveller” types do like their smack. qu’est-ce-çest? alors, y a un gros éléphant dans la chambre..:hopeless: