They converged without warning, Saturday evening August 22, at Saint-Etienne-de-Montluc (Loire-Atlantique), near the Etier de la Musse stream. About six hundred revelers participating in a illegal rave party, on agricultural land quite isolated from homes, but probably not sufficiently … Local residents, having heard music all night, called the gendarmerie this Sunday morning 23 August.
Three people arrested
The music was cut around 11 am by the gendarmes, and all the sound equipment, occupying a truck of about twenty cubic meters, seized. While the gatherings are subject to strict rules in this period of health crisis, the gendarmes also noted that the wearing of a mask was hardly respected.
Three men were arrested. Two of them, in their twenties, the subject of several research files, traveling in a stolen car, are suspected of petty theft. The third individual had about 50 pills of ecstasy on him. The three young people were taken into custody.
The operation mobilized around sixty gendarmes from the Nantes, Rezé, Saint-Nazaire company, reservists, as well as a helicopter from Rennes.
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