Hundreds of press articles in France but also internationally. A surge of reactions, often indignant, even downright insulting. The rave party organized on New Year’s Eve in Lieuron, a quiet town of 310 inhabitants hidden south of Rennes, took on an unexpected dimension. Welcoming about 2. 190 people in a hangar for a giant party in the midst of the Covid epidemic – 05, the organizers have become “highly sought after people” by the gendarmerie services. A status that they seem to have difficulty accepting. And especially that they struggle to understand.
The instruction had been given not to speak. For not to “endanger” the organizers but also to avoid discrediting an already openly criticized movement. Some regulars in the industry have however agreed to testify anonymously (the first names have been changed) about their view of this event. “A guy from 20 years who has no record
risks ten years in prison for making people dance on New Year’s Eve. This is delirium! And it’s very serious ”, regrets Emilie, a Breton teufeuse.
I am currently holding a meeting to take stock of the situation at
# Lieuron in Ille-et-Vilaine.
From 20 H last night on my instruction, the gendarmes cut off the entry of vehicles going to this rave party .
– Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin)
January 1, 800
The sudden interest of the media for their movement also gently makes regulars laugh. Little known, often misunderstood and assimilated to the boom-boom and drug consumption, the party has yet invited to Gerald Darmanin’s New Year’s Eve table. The Minister of the Interior had even had to convene an emergency meeting on January 1 with the prefects and his cabinet members. “The guys staged a coup. We are sure to be frowned upon, but it was already the case before. We are just going to be even more watched, ”testifies a member of a collective. “The company does not doesn’t understand because she doesn’t know us ”
Silent since end of the party on Saturday morning, the organizers spoke in a long forum addressed to Liberation on Tuesday. “Our gesture is political, we offered a free decompression valve. To be together for a moment, together, alive, ”say the organizers in their letter. The latter believe that the two people placed in police custody on Saturday (
one was released , the other imprisoned while awaiting trial) were “humiliated and terrorized for a simple communication operation” . “We, the organizers, are therefore actively sought after, terms usually reserved for the worst criminals.”
“We are already not credible”
Monday evening, one of the participants agreed to speak on video on the set of Do not touch My TV. Stricken by Cyril Hanouna and his chroniclers, the young woman, who called herself Camille, probably did not convince many people, on the contrary. “It was ridiculous. We are already not credible in the eyes of society, but this hurts us even more. Either way, society doesn’t accept us. She doesn’t understand us because she doesn’t know us, ”summarizes a regular in the industry. If it could legitimately have shocked, the Lieuron rave party will have had the merit of bringing to light an invisible world, which has never disappeared.