LCI editorial staff –
For them, New Year’s Eve lasted until Sunday. In the Yonne, a rave party started in the night from Friday to Saturday to end this Sunday morning, in peace. About 1,500 people gathered on the esplanade of an abandoned fire extinguisher factory in Saint-Florentin. The Sicli factory is located away from the city.
In a press release this morning, the prefect “strongly condemns” this “undeclared festive gathering “ and emphasizes that he had to “terminate” to make room for a “health monitoring”.
The revelers would have first met in the parking lot of a shopping center before heading shortly before midnight Friday to the place of the party, about twenty kilometers further. According to France Bleu, who interviewed a “teuffeuse”, the speakers were turned on “around 3 am” on Saturday morning. The music is still going.
On the spot, “an important gendarmerie device secures the surroundings of the site and the axes of circulation” and “alcohol and narcotics checks are in progress”, specified the prefecture.
Around 500 vehicles are still parked near the industrial site. “The prefect is in contact with the public prosecutor so that an investigation can be opened, in particular under the qualification of an illicit organization of a festive musical gathering “, concluded the authority. The police have not, for the moment, entered into contact with the organizers of the evening.