The gendarmes here on the outskirts of the rave party in Lieuron, in Ille-et-Vilaine, where 2,500 people celebrated the New Year.

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  • The organizers of the Lieuron rave party are "actively sought" according to investigators.

  • Only one man has so far been arrested and placed in pre-trial detention.

  • The organizers addressed a platform to "Liberation" to express their point of view.

He is barely 22 years old, lives in a truck in Ille-et-Vilaine and regularly takes part in parties.

Placed in custody on Saturday and imprisoned since Monday, this young man is for the time being the only “organizer” of the Lieuron rave party to have been apprehended by the police.

Betrayed by his phone with which he sent more than 1,000 SMS on the evening of December 31, this young man admitted having participated in the organization of the event which hit the headlines and has been unleashing passions for several days.

"He was not the only organizer, it is obvious," Philippe Astruc evoked Monday evening to the press.

The prosecutor estimated "that at least three or four people" more could be at the origin of the event.

And that all were actively sought by investigators for "their irresponsible and deeply asocial behavior" in the midst of a health crisis.

The investigation led by two investigating judges will have to get down to penetrating the spheres of the little-known part of the party.

A world that functions a lot by network of knowledge and does not bother to leave too many traces.

Is the man arrested really at the origin of the Lieuron rave party?

His lawyer doubts it.

"My client does not recognize being part of the organization", insists Me Rémi Cassette.

"He admits having participated and given a hand punctually but not having been in the organization".

"These people were therefore humiliated and terrorized for a simple communication operation," say the organizers in a column published by

Liberation

.

A lot of times the only thing we get in return is bullshit ”.

Several groups mobilized on the organization

The lawyer is not the only one who thinks that investigators did not catch the right fish and that the main perpetrators were not apprehended.

According to our information, several groups have come together to organize the event.

"There is no register, they do not emargent", slipped the prosecutor with a smile.

Sound equipment was seized by the police, but it seems that it was not used in Lieuron.

The location was kept secret.

If they knew that an event was brewing, the police had a hard time knowing the point of fall.

Without a criminal record, the only known suspect was however placed in pre-trial detention "because of the risk of consultation with the other organizers", according to the prosecutor.

"In the context of organizing evenings of this type, in my opinion, this is a first," said his lawyer.

The improbable media coverage of the event, including in foreign newspapers, prompted revelers to shut up.

Several collectives have called on those used to the movement not to speak out.

One of them did it Monday evening on the

Touche

plateau

not at my post

, which was strongly criticized.

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