Party Vibe

Welcome to Partyvibe Acidmonkey1 :weee:

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they seem to “allow” one big teknival but bust all other large ones hard. In recent times though they have been allowing smaller ones <500 people if the council agrees (it is like our TENS laws but with less bureaucracy). But not all councils allow the raves in their areas.

Foreign cops do make ours look like fluffy kittens though.

They have guns all the time and are also geared up and trained to even expect people to shoot back (as on occasions ravers have also brought various firearms to teknivals). Many cops are gendarmes who are really soldiers rather than civillian police, and are often badly trained youths our age on national service (so of course they will have more nationalism and be against “hippies”).

Usually the info about the “permitted” teknival is released now and I haven’t seen it yet ,despite checking all the usual places (if I find the info in French usually me or Raj translates it..)

if the “permitted” tek happens it is usually fairly safe but the cops will enforce the closedown time quite hard (i.e you move off when they say the party is finished otherwise they will use robot vehicles to discharge CS gas canisters at the field).

There is plenty of warning though, what has happened in the past is that the cops brandish and show off all this scary kit but don’t actually do anything particularly bad if people comply with what they say. Loads of my mates have gone and brought rigs and they haven’t got in any shit (other than being set upon by some French gangsters from a dodgy crew) provided they weren’t taking the piss or blatant with drugs.

Bear in mind though there is the new Sarko bloke in charge and he is supposed to be a bit more on top so its unsure how much the teknival will be tolerated.

Any French on here are welcome to add any info they have (it is strange how little is released this year?)