Police in France break up new year rave during Covid curfew
by Associated Press in Paris from World news | The Guardian on (#5CAHM)
Partygoers from France and other countries had converged on hangar in Lieuron, Brittany
A judicial investigation has been opened to identify and prosecute organisers of an underground party that drew at least 2,500 people in western France despite the country's coronavirus curfew, the interior minister has said.
Gerald Darmanin tweeted that actions by police around the site at Lieuron in Brittany led to the end of the illegal party without violence" on Saturday morning, 36 hours after it had begun.
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