Fontjoncouse (11): indignation and anger after the organization of a rave party on land ravaged by this summer's fires. "People have lost everything here and they come to dance? May the devil take them."

Around 2,500 partygoers managed to take possession of a plot of land in Fontjoncouse (Aude) in a detestable atmosphere, a town martyred by the fire of August 9.

This tiny village in the high Corbières, world-renowned as a gastronomic destination, was surrounded by flames on August 9th and then ravaged by fire over hundreds of hectares (36 homes destroyed, one dead). Yet it was this lunar and devastated setting that was chosen to bring together several thousand music lovers. (…)

A little further down in the village, Florian Richter, winegrower and owner of part of the land occupied by the illegal rave, is outraged. "It's zero respect, zero humanity. Yesterday ( Saturday ) we almost came to blows with some guys who were wandering down the main street. I can't imagine what state we'll find our land in," worries the young winegrower. (...)

"Here in this village, many have lost everything that was their personal and economic life. So coming to dance on the ashes, no thank you, it's absolutely immoral. We've been rebuilding ourselves for three weeks on the idea of ​​solidarity and mutual aid. This is driving people crazy," chokes Gilles Goujon, the Michelin-starred chef at the Auberge du Vieux Puits, who, with emotion, points to the olive trees in a corner of his terrace that his customers send him from all over to replant the village plots. (...)

The Parisian