The Grand-Est Regional Health Agency (ARS) called on the some 500 participants in an illegal rave party, dispersed on Sunday in a wood of Toul, to be tested and to protect their loved ones from the coronavirus, announced the prefecture of Meurthe-et-Moselle in a press release.
The dispersal of this rave party mobilized around a hundred police officers from the departmental direction of public security and a CRS company who, "in conjunction with the public prosecutor of Nancy, seized sound equipment. ", Specified the prefecture in a press release.
Avoid contact with vulnerable people and get tested
"The ARS asks that people present at this event wear a mask at all times, avoid contact with vulnerable people and get tested", continues the prefecture.
In its message to participants, the ARS emphasizes that "the number of people carrying Covid-19 is very high among people aged 15 to 44, and has been increasing week after week since the end of July".
Noting that "during this party, most of the participants did not respect the precautionary physical distance (1 meter) and did not wear a mask", the agency believes that there is "a great risk that the virus circulated very actively between people ”and that they become“ a carrier of the virus without knowing it ”.
According to the prefecture, the prefect of Meurthe-et-Moselle had taken on Friday "an order prohibiting the transport of sound equipment", the police being placed "on alert".
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