This Sunday, the Mossos d’Esquadra managed to stop and evacuate a “rave” party that was taking place all night without authorization in a property in Cervià de Ter (Gironès) and where about 70 participants were present, as El Country Mayor explained Guillem Surroca. After being notified by residents of this small town of about a thousand people, officers arrived at the scene and found the vehicles parked among the trees. After identifying the organizers, they stopped the music and expelled those present. The mayor, who accompanied the Mossos to the area, said he was pleased because “they acted pretty quickly.”
As the Catalan police announced, they received several calls from neighbors around 8:15 a.m. who alerted them to this gathering of people by playing loud music. Several patrols went into the city and contacted both the property owners and the city council, who confirmed that the party organizers did not have permission to do so.
For this reason, and in case there was unrest, several riot police cars from the Regional Operational Resources Area (ARRO) arrived at the scene, identified two of the organizers, prepared an administrative report and asked the party organizers to cancel the event. Music. To make sure it didn’t happen again, the agents confiscated their sound equipment. As the vehicles left the party, officers also conducted drug checks on attendees.
In the place chosen to celebrate the “Rave”, in the area of the old “Sorrera”, on the other side of the Ter River, where there are grain fields and a plot of banana trees, there were about 30 vehicles parked. It is a border area between Cervià and Sant Joan de Mollet. Although the music stopped early in the morning, the visitors, who caused no incident and mostly came from the provinces of Girona and Barcelona, left the venue throughout the day and it was not until 6:30 p.m. that the venue was fully evacuated. Location.
This is not the first time that a “rave” has taken place in this Gironès town or its surroundings. In April last year, there was such a case involving about 300 people, which lasted more than four days during Holy Week – between April 6 and 10 – and caused numerous complaints from both residents of this city and neighboring towns. The leaders of the affected municipalities met to take measures against these concentrations, which are usually carried out without the authorization of the owners of the land where they are installed and the municipal administrations and are very annoying for the neighbors. The owner of the property, a sandy area near the Ter River, filed a complaint about the occupation of the site. From Sant Jordi Desvalls they assured that there were at least a dozen of these festivals in the area last year. “It is something that can be described as habitual because it has been going on for several years,” says Surroca.
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