French police clashed for hours with partygoers at a 1,500-strong illegal rave over the weekend, with one partygoer losing a hand and five officers injured.
Local official Emmanuel Berthier said partygoers threw “Molotov cocktails, metal balls and bits of breeze blocks” at officers during “very violent clashes” in western France.
The unrest began on Friday night when the crowd defied an 11pm coronavirus curfew and police then fired teargas to disperse them, sparking more than seven hours of violence, Berthier said.
He said 400 officers were involved in tackling the unrest that continued into Saturday afternoon in an area near Redon in Brittany. Berthier said the “people had an objective, to confront
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