Unauthorised rave parties drew
thousands of young people to countryside venues in Piedmont and
Puglia over the mid-August Feast of the Assumption (of Mary)
'Ferragosto' holiday.
Police said they had decided to tolerate, for public safety
reasons, the rave at Predosa near Alessandria in Piedmont.
Similar reasons were given for allowing the other rave to go
ahead at Castrì in the Salento region of southern Puglia.
An estimated 2,000 youths attended the Predosa rave, police
said.
Over 1,000 raved at the get-together at Castrì, local
authorities said.
Huge clean-up operations were ongoing Tuesday at both sites.
Local officials in both Piedmont and Puglia called for the law
to be enforced against such events, banning them from going
ahead.
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