• Rave party in the Viterbo area, the right attacks.

    Police: "Taking action is risky"

  • Rave party still in progress in the Viterbo area, found dead in the 24-year-old lake

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19 August 2021 Intervention by the police in the area of ​​the abusive maxi rave party in progress from 13 August in Valentano (Viterbo).



The vast majority of people present at the rave on Lake Mezzano, in the upper Tuscia of Viterbo, left the place of the party.



Kilometric lines at the exit of the Valentano countryside, where the police - with the help of the dog units - are checking the cars one by one. A helicopter, meanwhile, flies over the area. The State Police armored vehicles are at the rave venue. The situation, at the moment, appears calm.



Yesterday evening, a few dozen participants had been reported in the historic center of the neighboring Pitigliano (Grosseto), a town crowded with tourists these days. According to what has been learned among the veterans of the rave, some had run out of food and went in search of food, some fell asleep by actually camping in the public streets, others had no means to return to their places of origin and were waiting for the resumption of the scheduled services (buses). 



The situation is calm but is being observed by the authorities. "The outflow from the rave has begun - explained Mayor Giovanni Gentili last night - and some participants arrived in the village of Pitigliano. Those who were less organized, without campers, without caravans, left the rave. Often they ran out of stocks and if They go away. It turns out that the organizers planned to make the rave last ten days but we hope it will end tomorrow (today,

ed

), there are agreements that operate in this direction ".



Even the municipalities of Manciano and to a lesser extent Sorano, on the Tuscan side are affected by the return flows of the veterans of the rave party observed in their transits by the local population in their homes.



The party, which peaked with 10 thousand admissions on August 15th, continued even after the death of one of the participants, found on Monday in Lake Mezzano, a few hundred meters from the ground where the rally is taking place. A death on which the Prosecutor of Viterbo has opened a file. Proceedings for death as a consequence of another crime. The magistrates are awaiting the results of the autopsy ordered to ascertain the causes. There are also 5 boys taken to the hospital in nearby Pitigliano for alcohol abuse. Four would end up in an ethyl coma. "When people come from all over Europe it is impossible to keep the distance," says one of the participants. "Everything is very well organized - underlines another at the wheel of his camper -. As soon as I received the coordinates of theevent I set out on the road. After two years, people want to get high. "



The reactions

There was a lot of controversy about how the event is being managed. For the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, that rave "is a slap in the face of common sense and to the Italians who respect the rules, yet the Interior Ministry is immobile. The League will present a question". On the same line, the leader of the Brothers of Italy Giorgia Meloni: "No one has intervened yet to clear the field. Lamorgese, but where are you?".



Forza Italia senator Maurizio Gasparri, on the other hand, stated: "I bitterly register the surrender of the State in the face of the rave party that goes on substantially undisturbed". And the deputy of the Democratic Party Luca Sani spoke of "serious default on the part of the Ministry of the Interior". 



The National Association of Police Officers has a different opinion. "Who today cries out to scandal and solicits forced interventions - said the spokesman Girolamo Lacquaniti - know that he is insisting on a solution where the possibility of having serious injuries or lethal events is a real probability".