The raveurs settled on a grazing site for sheep-to-Head-the-Parade, on the Causse Méjean, with approximately 4000 vehicles.
A little less than a thousand people were present this Tuesday evening on the site of a rave party which was attended by up to 10,000 party-goers in the mountains of the Cevennes, the last weekend, said the prefecture of the Lozère, which refers to an “acceleration of the departure”.
“things are accelerating and we will continue to put the pressure even more strongly,” said in the evening the préfète Valerie Hatsch, to the AFP. “A lot of material”, including sonos, was seized and “numerous citation” for possession of drugs in particular have been developed, she added.
In a statement, the prefecture explained in the morning that “the presence of young children, the health-hazardous conditions in connection with the consumption of alcohol and drugs and the rapid decrease in the number of participants, linked to the controls carried out by the forces of law and order, justified fully, at this stage, the decision of the State not to proceed with the forced evacuation of the site” – of the fields located in the commune of Head-the-Parade, on a limestone plateau, in the heart of the Cevennes national park.
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Action controversial farmers
The prefecture has denounced the actions of 13 farmers of the co-Ordination of rural Lozère, “minority trade union”, who have blocked several roads on Monday in calling for the forced removal of the revelers. These farmers are not affected by the occupation of the site and are not mandated neither by the landlord nor by the Chamber of agriculture, which is brush it away completely of their action,” she insisted.
The breeder owner of the pastures which are installed on the “ravers” had indicated to the AFP that it did not support the protest actions Coordination in rural areas.
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the farmers of the co-Ordination had “threatened to block the A75 motorway, if a forced evacuation of the site of the ‘teknival’…was not immediately committed,” said the prefecture. Prevented to carry out this action, they are then blocked or slowed traffic on several roads before “gather themselves together at the centre of Mende, “where they made the noise from 23: 30 pm”.
“It is regrettable that the action of the farmers of the co-Ordination of rural has diverted a part of the forces of the order of the priority mission assigned to them on the website of the teknival”, she lamented.
The rally has put a dent in the measures of fight against the novel coronavirus, while the department of the Lozère, the least populated of France, has been the most spared since the beginning of the pandemic.
