More than 1,500 people gathered on Saturday for a rave party in Guémar, in the Haut-Rhin, said the prefecture, which has not noted any particular tensions for the moment. “Since the middle of the night, several hundred people have gathered on land in Guémar (north of Colmar, editor’s note) for a rave party“Explained the Haut-Rhin prefecture in a press release. “At 10 a.m. this morning, about 1,600 participants are present“, she added, specifying that no authorization had been requested for this gathering.
The prefecture expects other teknivaliers to join this rave party during the day. Some 150 gendarmes were mobilized “to guarantee the safety of the inhabitants and of this event“. On Friday, the prefecture of the Territoire du Belfort, a department located just south of the Haut-Rhin, had banned an unauthorized gathering “rave party type, free party, teknivallikely to be held there this weekend.