Feedback: a restless Saturday night
It was not the bells that woke up the inhabitants of Bierset on Saturday (in the communes of Grace-Hollogne and Awans), near Liège, this night; but the bass sounds emitted by a rave party.
This type of event is not a first since the police have already intervened several times in recent years for parties at this place. Rallies also reportedly took place last weekend.
It is an abandoned hangar, near Liège airport, a former army building, which now belongs to SOWAER, the Walloon airport company. There are few houses very close but the sound seems to reach the neighboring districts.
About 2000 people participated in this rave. The equipment was installed around midnight (between Friday and Saturday) and the revelers arrived at 3 am “It’s scheduled until Monday eveningconfirms a participant from Tournai, but maybe the police will stop first.“Many French people from the North of the Flemings and the Hainauts are present on the Liège site.
“It was greatsays one participant, and there, we’re going to sleep a little in the car“. The party is self-managed by the participants, with prevention stands: “everything is set up so that everyone has a good evening.“
Annoyed residents
About the nuisances, the participants of the rave understand that this can annoy the local residents but here, we are in a zone, there are not really close residents” justifies another speaker. This is not really the opinion of a young woman, who lives in the neighborhood: “it makes a lot of noise, we have a little trouble sleeping and these people leave their waste there. We notified the police, they said they were taking charge of the situation, but nothing changed. They say they are understaffed.“
According to several sources, the local police, warned, would not actually have the human resources necessary to intervene. “We saw them at the beginning, there were a lot of them, but they left“, says a participant.
