This is how an eternal 'rave' rises: six stages in three hours, a house-truck with an engineer and two garbage trucks

• Granada The attendees of the 'rave' in Granada begin to leave after six days of partying and four arrests

Around 2:30 p.m. yesterday, a dozen vehicles queued up to pass the last of the two Civil Guard checkpoints that those attending the

illegal

must overcome before leaving the area.

Along with the police cars are some caravans and vans that were prevented from accessing the

: "A fucking big party", this is how the event, which is estimated to have passed between 4,000 and 5,000 people, was discreetly publicized.

Among them is a heavy-duty truck containing rented

sound material .

«I have an events company.

I was hired by a group of kids from

but they didn't let me pass”, says its 40-year-old owner with a glass of wine in his hand, who asks that his name and that of his company not be published, stamped on the truck.

The vehicle could not enter the rave but he did.

«We wanted to celebrate the end of the year 2022-23... Well, celebrating would not be the word because a friend has died, to say goodbye in a more or less good way, because the kid liked the area a lot, but they have not left completely.

People have had to walk and those who are inside have not been allowed to go to town by car, otherwise, we would have spent everything, I would have had this town to live in for four years”, he complained about the controls.

-And how much were they going to pay you?

It depends on the benefits.

-Benefits?

If there was no entry charge, right?

-From what is taken from the alcohol bar, from food, from clothes...

-I thought that the pizzeria, the hamburger stand and others had been set up by individuals...

-No, no, they put that all.

One of the last facilities that remained to be dismantled, yesterday. ÁNGEL NAVARRETE

Next to our interlocutor is a 29-year-old Italian, an electronic sound engineer, whose mission at the party has been to repair any fault in the equipment.

He managed to enter with his "home truck" on Friday night, before the Civil Guard blocked the passage, but he had a breakdown, he returned to repair it and the control was already found.

He has come and gone from the truck to the

, walking the eight kilometers that separate them.

«This morning I collected five bags of garbage, ours and also things that people had left here, because there were rusty cans.

For us it is very important to respect the environment and non-violence », he says in defense of the behavior they have had.

He is accompanied by a 24-year-old girl, with whom he will now travel to the

, where she is from.

They do not have a fixed residence: "We live around the world."

She usually works as a seasonal worker in the French countryside.

They also say that they found out about the party many weeks ago.

As it was disseminated through small WhatsApp and Telegram groups, it was going to be held in

but at the last moment it was changed to

, a town of 1,150 inhabitants that has been speechless for six days at what is the most surprising event in his story.

"I think they changed it because of problems with the

, because the Police intercept messages, you know," says the Italian.

He and the owner of the events company have given us some clues as to how a party of this dimension has been organized, but we will find the definitive answers in the camp.

You have to walk four to five kilometers along the

until you reach the dirt road where the second checkpoint is located.

"Vehicle documentation, please?"

The caravans stumble down the slope and those who are walking cut the three kilometers that are distant to the

through the pine forest loaded with backpacks and some even drag a suitcase.

speaker pyramid

At 4:30 p.m., the esplanade, where the

in just three hours, it's all silence.

There is no sign of the six stages, no music, no pizzas, no soap sales.

There are practically no people, all stuck in tents or in the hundreds of vehicles that still remain.

At the entrance, there is a mountain of garbage bags next to a pyramid of loudspeakers, the remains of the only stage that is still standing.

Next to him, a group of French, Italian and Spanish.

This particular stage, explains a girl from Barcelona, ​​has been set up by Spaniards and Italians.

A few meters further on there was another of French and English and so on until completing the six stages or "towers", as they call it.

The list of groups has been publicized by some of the participants on their social networks.

In it there are 35 names, although some have not attended.

"These",

, "they have not come because a colleague has died."

Among the attendees, according to the aforementioned list, have been

... From the content of their social networks it is understood that they are groups that are dedicated to this, to suddenly set up a

in the least expected place.

They have videos of previous dates on Halloween or Carnival.

One of the buses tells us that they had to stop the music last night because two trucks were left outside and they had a borrowed generator.

Precisely one of those trucks was the one that our interlocutor was driving, stopped at the first control.

"We have hired two trucks to collect the garbage, but they won't let them through," says a girl, pointing to the pile of bags.

We leave the camp and return to the first control, where there are many more caravans parked than we left.

"It's that they are doing the stick test [for drugs] and they are going to wait eight hours."

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