At around 9:00 AM, authorities had counted 2,300 vehicles, about 8,000 people, gathered on the Polygone, a shooting range of the Delegation General for Armaments, explained Philippe Le Moing Surzur.
The event organizers informed the prefecture, through an indirect contact, that they were expecting 30,000 people.
Partygoers have been on this military ground since 5:00 AM, located in the town of Cornusse, “which is very dangerous due to the unexploded ammunition it may contain.” “They couldn’t have chosen a worse location,” emphasized the Cher prefect, urging participants to refrain from making fires, digging, or picking up anything on the ground.
The Cher prefecture has established an operational center to coordinate the implementation of a rescue plan, particularly to address fires or explosions.
Against the criminalization of rave parties
In a statement shared on social media, presented in the form of a fake prefectural decree, the “organizers of the Bourges Teknival” explain that with this event, they aim to protest against a proposed law seeking to “strengthen the criminalization of undeclared or prohibited rave parties.”
Adopted in the first reading by the National Assembly on April 9, the law must now be examined by the Senate.
