Tatiana Geiselman 8:02 p.m., July 01, 2022
A violent storm swept through the Eurockéennes de Belfort site on Thursday, injuring seven, including one seriously, thus spoiling the return of one of the biggest festivals in France after two editions canceled due to Covid-19: Thursday evening, as well than Friday, had to be cancelled.
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A violent storm swept through the site of the Eurockéennes de Belfort on Thursday, injuring seven, including one seriously, thus spoiling the return of one of the biggest festivals in France after two editions canceled because of the Covid-19: Thursday evening, as well than Friday, had to be cancelled.
But all is not lost: the Eurockéennes will indeed start tomorrow afternoon.
4,000 festival-goers present on the site
To clean up the site, workers are hard at work.
They clean and remove the branches, but there is nothing irreparable, confirms Jean-Claude Rolland, the director general of the festival.
"A lot of barriers have been folded. But let's say that there are no extraordinary repairs. We are not in the process of redoing the whole of the big stage, otherwise we would have abdicated", he explains at the microphone of Europe 1.
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Among the 4,000 festival-goers already present on the site, disappointment gave way to good humor, like Margot, who arrived specially from Lyon.
"I was just coming for tonight and suddenly, I wouldn't see the color of the festivals this year. I may come back from the next ones only if there are no forecast storms," she laughs.
"The sustainability of the festival is absolutely not questioned or threatened"
Eurockéennes who will be back next year, as Matthieu Pigasse, the president of the festival, assures Europe 1: "Obviously, such an event has a financial cost. But I want to reassure all the fans of the festival. The sustainability of the festival is absolutely not called into question or threatened and the festival will continue tomorrow".