Rave party in an airport near Quimper: more than 15,000 people gathered and flights canceled

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Since the beginning of the night from Friday to Saturday, thousands of people gathered on the site of Pluguffan airport, near Quimper, in Finistère, as part of a rave party. According to the police, there would be 15,000 people present (more than 6,000 according to the prefecture) but around 40,000 people, in total, could be expected within the next few hours. A rave party that could last all weekend.

Very quickly, around thirty gendarmes, an SDIS crew and representatives of the prefecture were deployed on site. Mobile reinforcements are expected. The departmental operational center (COD) coordinates the action of the security forces deployed in order to secure the site and its surroundings as well as the traffic routes.

At the same time, airport activity was brought to a halt with canceled flights.

According to the gendarmerie, some 23 “Sound systems” had called for a Breton gathering, between March 29 and April 2, 2024. To try to prevent this large-scale free party, a decree prohibiting any festive gathering in Ille-et- Naughty, in the Finistère and in Côtes-d’Armor was taken this Friday. The party-goers ignored it.

In a press release this Saturday morning, the prefect of Finistère informed that during the night from Friday to Saturday, “several vehicles were checked in the Châteaulin sector allowing the seizure of 65 m³ of sound system type material as well as several vehicles and a group large capacity generator on the basis of the prefectural ban order”.

The prefecture recalls that participation in this gathering constitutes “an offense subject to sanctions, in particular for participation in an undeclared festive gathering and for parking and illegal access to a restricted access zone (airport ZAR). Participants will be fined.”

The public is invited to avoid the airport area.