A party bringing together a hundred people took place in a cottage in Ernes, in Calvados.
The gendarmes intervened Friday evening to put an end to the clandestine gathering.
"We are going to have a number of police custody this morning," Amélie Cladière, public prosecutor of Caen, told AFP.
The Calvados gendarmes intervened on Friday evening to put an end to a clandestine party in which a hundred people participated in Ernes, we learned from concordant sources on Saturday.
According to the gendarmerie, the party, which was not free, took place in a cottage in Ernes, a village of 300 inhabitants.
The Caen prosecutor's office told AFP that an investigation was open and was not able to quantify the number of participants.
The prefect reported on this operation on Twitter while recalling that "now is not the time to relax" in the face of the Covid.
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Several people in custody
The Calvados gendarmerie "intervened in Ernes to put an end to a clandestine party. The organizer was arrested and the participants fined. Legal proceedings are underway. Faced with the Covid-19, the time is not right. release, "said the prefect of the department on Twitter.
The @ Gendarmerie_14 intervened in Ernes to put an end to a clandestine party.
The organizer was arrested and the participants fined.
Legal proceedings are in progress.
Faced with # COVID19, this is not the time to relax.
- Prefect of Calvados (@ Prefet14) March 5, 2021
"We are going to have a number of police custody this morning," Amélie Cladière, public prosecutor of Caen, told AFP.
Asked about the heads of the investigation, the magistrate said she was "still on the assumptions which are the basis of our work".
"The question of knowing if it was a paying party makes us work on a possible hidden work. There would be the question of the degradation in the lodging. And there would be a possible endangerment of others but the endangerment. danger of others is an offense which is quite constrained in terms of qualification: people must have been exposed to an immediate risk, it is a hypothesis for the moment ", she specified.