Montmartre, November 1, 2020 -
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Last weekend, the police intervened in the backyard of a restaurant located in the 17th arrondissement where a private party was being held.
The story was taken up by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and the government spokesman Gabriel Attal.
The phenomenon of so-called clandestine evenings is currently "very marginal", according to the police headquarters, requested by
20 Minutes.
It was last weekend in Paris, a few days after the start of season 2 confinement. Several dozen people gathered near a tunnel in the small belt in the 15th arrondissement, not far from the rue des Périchaux , for a "rave party".
Sound system and nitrous oxide cartridges in the pockets of some, they partied until the early hours of the morning before the police intervened.
Fifteen people were fined and the two organizers arrested.
In the same weekend, the police also intervened in the backyard of a restaurant located in the 17th arrondissement where a private party was held bringing together a hundred people, said Monday on RMC- BFMTV the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin.
Eighty-eight people were fined, including the owner of the building, according to BFM Paris.
In addition, the police headquarters says it has also checked and fined 21 people for entry into quarries and other catacombs.
So many events that nearly motivated the reinstatement of the curfew in the capital?
A quack.
"We don't see ten rave parties per weekend"
Government spokesman Gabriel Attal announced on BFMTV / RMC that "in view of these situations, we are going to reinstate a curfew on Paris and perhaps Ile-de-France".
But the announcement was denied a few minutes later by Matignon, who assures us that such a measure was "absolutely not decided at this stage".
"The police chief mentioned this measure in view of certain situations observed in the evening in Paris", such as groups in front of restaurants making delivery, but it is "not decided at this stage," assured Matignon.
And in reality the phenomenon of so-called clandestine evenings "does not really exist or it is very very marginal", indicates the police headquarters, requested by
20 Minutes.
“These are isolated places, isolated cases, continues the PP.
In any case, we don't see ten rave parties per weekend.
»If in the spring-summer, the Paris region had become the temple of the free-party, and that tricks and trickery to dance quietly abounded at the start of the school year in the capital, the time is no longer to party this new confinement and less favorable weather.
Nightclubs have been closed since March, bars and restaurants have pulled back the iron curtain.
And the controls are numerous.
"We are not worried"
Could the 15th arrondissement tunnel however review the organization of a rave party?
Philippe Goujon, mayor (LR) of the 15th is in any case not worried.
“Yes, the configuration of the place is conducive to more or less occult gatherings with people who come to party there.
It happens regularly and it was already the case before and besides it can embarrass local residents.
But currently we are not worried, we have no reports, nor too many lifts, ”he says to
20 Minutes
.
Our dossier on containment
If the curfew in the capital is no longer relevant for the moment, it nevertheless remains on a corner of the table.
Emmanuel Macron met this Wednesday morning a Defense Council to discuss possible new measures in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic which is still galloping, after a series of hiccups around the containment.
Will there be a turn of the screw and the official implementation of this curfew in order to avoid family dinners and clandestine parties?
Gabriel Attal made no announcement, referring to the weekly government press conference held this Thursday.
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