Two suspected drug traffickers, arrested Sunday in the Loire during an illegal rave party, were arrested and then placed in custody, AFP learned from the gendarmerie. Started Friday evening, the party which brought together about 500 people on a wooded and isolated communal land of Verrières-en-Forez (Loire), had gone unnoticed until the intervention of the firefighters on Sunday for a malaise apparently linked to the drug use.
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The intervention of about sixty gendarmes from the Loire, Puy-de-Dôme and Ain then led to the arrest and detention of three people. Besides a “chirp“, Who should be prosecuted for rebellion, the other two people were presented as”drug traffickers, on whom large sums of cash have been found“, We said from the same source.
A stock of narcotics (cannabis, amphetamines, ecstasy and cocaine), which the latter allegedly got rid of when the gendarmes arrived at the site, was found in a cache. Investigators have also identified the organizers of the event, from the Clermont-Ferrand region, who will be prosecuted for this unauthorized rave party.
Also on Sunday, in Saône-et-Loire in Saint-Florentin, another illegal rave party also ended after 48 hours and gathered at the height of the event some 1,500 revelers.