Clashes with police at illegal rave attended by over 2,500 people in France Unlisted

French police on Saturday (January 2) shut down a huge party in northwestern France that had been underway since New Year's Eve in defiance of a curfew and coronavirus restrictions on large gatherings.

About 2,500 people had attended the rave party in an unused warehouse in Lieuron, near Rennes, and some clashed with police on Saturday, police said.

Britons were among those present at a mass New Year's Eve rave in France that led to clashes with police enforcing lockdown rules, it was claimed today.

When police tried to intervene, they "faced fierce hostility from many partygoers", who set one of their cars on fire and threw bottles and stones, according to the local prefecture. The party continued throughout the night and all of Friday, with music only being finally switched off on Saturday morning, when a few hundred revellers had yet to depart.

Participants interviewed by the AFP news agency declined to be identified but said that the revellers had included partygoers from both Britain and Spain. It was not clear whether the Britons said to have been at the party had travelled direct to France or were already resident there. Current Covid restrictions forbid Britons from travelling to France for non-essential reasons.

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