It is not only at Roland-Garros that the curfew has exceeded.

Several hundred young people gathered on Friday evening to party on the Esplanade des Invalides, in Paris, until the police intervened to disperse them.

The prefecture tweeted on this subject around 11:30 p.m., after the time of the curfew.

Esplanade des Invalides |

Intervention underway by the police to put an end to a festive evening bringing together several hundred participants in defiance of sanitary rules.

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- Police Prefecture (@prefpolice) June 11, 2021

Around midnight, a few clusters of revelers were still present near the Alexandre III bridge, and police cars circulating with flashing lights.

A Project X evening?

Gaspard, 17, told an AFP journalist on site that he was having a drink in the 15th arrondissement when he heard about a Project X party (named after the American film centered on a youth party that turns bad) announced on social networks: "As soon as it comes to Project X, everyone gets excited, there were hundreds and hundreds of people, we had to be at least 1,000 or 1,500", a insured this minor.

"We danced, made pogos, but from 11pm, the" cops "arrived and charged, it dispersed everyone," he added.

According to images posted on social networks, groups of jubilant young people had invaded the esplanade, dancing, shouting, most without a mask.

Alma and Emma, ​​aged 19 and 18, from Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine), for their part came to “hang out at the Invalides” in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, because at this time of year, “It's often the same thing”: “we saw that there was a good atmosphere.

In the end, it didn't last long, at 11pm, they dispersed us, straight away.

We managed not to get "gassed" but we saw people caught in clouds of tear gas, "Alma told AFP.

"The lawns were full, we were really a lot, it had been a long time since we had party because of the Covid-19, we really needed it," added Emma.

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