The raveurs settled on a grazing site for sheep-to-Head-the-Parade, on the Causse Méjean, with 4000 vehicles around.
More than 10,000 people have invaded on Saturday evening, an agricultural field private to organize a rave party in full national park of the Cevennes (Lozere), causing the anger of local farmers, a-t-on learned from the authorities. Because of the epidemic of Covid-19, the events of more than 5000 participants are forbidden in France until 31 August.
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The raveurs settled on a grazing site for sheep-to-Head-the-Parade, on the Causse Méjean, with 4000 vehicles around, according to the mayor André Baret. The latter explains that they have cut the barbed wire in the field, and that their presence will ruin the season of the farmer who owns it.
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“I’m very angry against the State. When I see the constraints that are imposed to farmers who cannot even move a stone of the causse without be they are just acknowledged and these 15,000 people who are doing absolutely what they want on the hill without even wearing a mask, I tell myself that this needs to change,” responded Alain Pouget, head of regional coordination in agricultural.
“The State mobilizes to block access to the site”
Sunday afternoon, according to the ministry of the Interior, “less than 5000 people” were still present on the premises. “The State mobilizes to block access to the site, 60 to 80 officers arrived at mid-day and so much will happen in the end of the day,” said a spokesman for the ministry. The State wishes to “find the organizers of this event is totally banned, which is in a protected area and in a period of drought” to punish them.
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The mayor Baret, for his part, asked the public to “stay at a distance and not to intervene”, as well as close the houses and especially barns. “It will be recalled from the previous edition (ed., 2000) We realized that there had been an upsurge in burglaries and, in particular, of thefts of diesel”.
