Ravers hike up mountain to outwit police (in France)

Reuters ^ | August 15, 2002 | Reuters

[Tancred]

Thursday August 15, 02:11 PM

Ravers hike up mountain to outwit police

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Thousands of techno revellers have outwitted French police by taking their rave, banned in France, up an Alpine mountain and cranking up their sound systems just over the border in Italy.

After playing a game of cat-and-mouse with French police overnight, around 3,000 ravers began their "Teknival", planned to take place "somewhere in the south of France", at some 2,000 metres altitude on the Col de Larche mountain, officials said on Thursday.

Wrapped up in warm clothes, the ravers set up their sound systems on Italian territory some 200 metres from France and began to party on both sides of the unfenced border -- their music equipment beyond the clutches of French police.

Under a new French law, organisers of raves involving more than 250 people must give the local prefect's office at least one month's notice of their plans, or else have their sound systems confiscated.

The law is aimed at making sure police and medical services are on hand to ensure security at raves, which are often associated with drug-taking. Local officials were annoyed the party organisers had decided to go up the mountain.

"If they want to show their sense of responsibility, they've chosen the wrong place," said Stephane Rouve, deputy prefect in the Alpes de Haute Provence region. "This is not the ideal place for a rave."

The ravers say the new law is repressive. They hope 20,000 people will join the party, due to go on until Sunday.

[BrooklynGOP]

Nice. I remember there was some rave in Albany where you had to meet at a certain place, then follow some cars to another cause the location wasn't revealed beforehand.

[Guillermo]

rave on john donne

[monday]

"If they want to show their sense of responsibility, they've chosen the wrong place," said Stephane Rouve, deputy prefect in the Alpes de Haute Provence region.

LOL.... yep rave organizers are known for wanting to show their sense of responsibility. I am sure they will be very disappointed.

"This is not the ideal place for a rave."

Guess that depends on your point of view? For the ravers it seems pretty ideal.

[PsyOp]

In other news: The Italian Army surrendered to an unknown number of French troops reported to have invaded through an ungaurded pass in the Alps. Details are sketchy but there are reports of the invaders using loud music as a psyop ploy and dressing up in garish costums reminicent of barbarian hordes that sacked Rome earlier in its history. The Pope is scheduled to address the nation....