Two people were taken into custody as part of the judicial investigation to identify the organizers of the wild party.
In total, more than 1,200 verbalizations were made.
A search was underway on Saturday and two people were in police custody as part of the judicial investigation to identify the organizers of the wild party which gathered around 2,500 people south of Rennes, announced the public prosecutor Philippe Astruc .
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"Two people, born in 1998, without a criminal record, were arrested" at 3:00 p.m. in Iffendic (Ille-et-Vilaine) and "placed in police custody", said the magistrate.
Narcotics seized
"A search is in progress, which has already made it possible to seize a sum of money (appearing at first analysis to result from the sharing of the fund for this event) and narcotics. Equipment allowing the installation of sound equipment has been seized ", specifies Mr. Astruc in a press release.
"As part of a judicial police operation led by the Redon research brigade, two platoons of mobile gendarmes, a surveillance and intervention platoon with the support of a helicopter, that is to say 70 gendarmes intervened", a specified the prosecutor.
Five people arrested on the sidelines of the dispersion
"In addition to the dispersion which gave rise to numerous verbalizations, five people were taken into custody" including three participants in the demonstration for offenses against the legislation on narcotics, two others who were "in possession of equipment", a mixer and a generator, detailed the prosecutor.
"The elements collected made it possible to confirm the paid nature of the event in the form of a contribution and the significant presence of narcotic products on the occasion of this event", indicates Mr. Astruc.
The Rennes public prosecutor's office recalls having opened an investigation for "unlawful organization of a festive gathering of a musical nature", "willful violence against persons holding public authority", "degradation of the property of others in a meeting" or even "work concealed "," unlawful holding of a drinking establishment "and" infringements of the legislation on narcotics and in particular the facilitation of use ".
According to the prosecutor, the penalty for these last facts is ten years' imprisonment.
"The action of the State, in its successive dimension of maintenance of order and judicial police, made it possible to put an end without violence to an illicit party strongly disturbing public order and to conduct a judicial investigation suitable to avoid any impunity ", underlined the prosecutor, considering that" the true authority of the State resides in this demanding balance ".