These roommates “are known to the courts” for offenses against narcotics legislation.
Le Monde avec AFP
Three alleged organizers of the illegal New Year’s rave party in Brittany, arrested in recent days in western France, have been indicted and placed under judicial control, the prosecutor’s office announced on Friday January 8. from Rennes. A first suspected organizer, a young man of 22, was indicted and imprisoned on Monday.
In total “four men aged 26 to 31” were arrested on Wednesday (in Loire-Atlantique for three of them and in Indre-et-Loire for the fourth), indicated the public prosecutor of Rennes, Philippe Astruc, in a press release.
Presented on Friday to the investigating judges in charge of the investigation “three of them were indicted by heads of organizations without prior declaration of a festive gathering of a musical nature in an undeveloped space”, underlines Mr. Astruc.
Among the other charges: “degradation or deterioration of the property of others with break-in, endangering others by manifestly deliberate violation of a regulatory obligation of safety or prudence “, but also” opening without prior declaration of a drinking outlet “, “covert work”, “aid in the use of drugs by others”. According to the prosecutor, these three defendants “were placed, on compliant requisitions from the prosecution, under judicial control”, and “a fourth person was placed under the status of assisted witness”.
A rally of support for the accused canceled
According to Philippe Astruc, these people, who live in shared accommodation, “are known to the courts” for offenses against the legislation on drugs and “declare to have been present at the free party de Lieuron “, south of Rennes. They “however deny having participated in the organization of the event”. “However, one of the detainees admits having helped organize the parking lot in the early evening of December 31, 2020”, according to the Rennes prosecutor.
Mr. Astruc adds that “professional equipment that can be used for organizing parties” as well as cash (several thousand euros, mostly in coins) were seized during searches of the homes of those in custody. /
A rally of “support for the accused”, which was scheduled for Saturday in Rennes and had been banned by the prefect of ‘Ille-et-Vilaine, was canceled Friday by the support committees, which invoke the “threats of criminal sanctions” hovering over anyone who took part.
Nearly 2,400 people had joined Lieuron Thursday evening for a rave party held in two large hangars, while on this New Year’s Eve the curfew had started at 8 pm everywhere in France. The revelers had left the premises on Saturday morning.