-- Freaky dragons festival -- 7 / 14 August 2007

On 2007-08-10 23:18, Remy [POF] wrote:
Just got back from Freaky Dragon after spending the last 4days there and this is how the festival turned into a nightmare…

From Wednesday around 11h00 both entrances for cars where blocked by a car with 2 cops and they sent away anyone who tried to enter the festival so more and more cars ended up on the side of the road. Apparently Christophe the main organizer had left to meet with his lawyer to unblock the situation with the authorities and we where told to wait.

About 5 hours later, around 15 Guardia Civil cars came and went inside the festival, they where followed 30min later by 3 trucks. Apparently they wanted to destroy all the structures and scenes that had been made for the festival under the last 2 months.

People of the organization and the people outside then decided to block the entrance by sitting in front of it so that no more truck could pass. I would estimate us at about 100 people maybe more. It’s important to point out that all this was done very quietly and calmly and also that we didn’t completely block the road; cars could continue to pass on the side.

And it’s VERY important to point out that all this time we thought that the festival was LEGAL because Christophe told us that he had authorisation and all these problems where just because there had been election recently and that the person that gave the authorisation was not re-elected and his lawyer would sort this out.

About 10min later we saw 3 police cars arriving with the cops from inside with at least 15cops that came out they all had their batons, shields, masks and protections. They advanced towards us calmly by walking and without warning started to hitting people of course including women, I was sitting in the front and the 1st hit was in the head of the guy who was sitting right in front of me and let me tell you one thing the hit that he got in the head could have killed him, everyone started to run and panicked but after about 20 or 30 min the calm had come back down. The police tried to erase all the videos and pictures that where taken but some managed to get away with theirs.

So if you have a video or pictures of what happened, please put them online somewhere as we need as much proof as we can get against these bastards. They had no right to hit people who where sitting and hadn’t done anything violent at all.

After all this shit happened Christophe told me and some other people that he had the authorization but only verbally not on paper, in my humble opinion when you want to organize a festival for more then 5000 people and with a budget of over 100 000 euros and you don’t get a written authorization which is technicly just like not having an authorization at all, YOU HAVE TO CANCEL.

Sorry Christophe but, whatever you want to admit it or not, if you would have had a paper saying that you had the right to do the festival all this wouldn’t have happened. It’s not entirely your fault but it is partly, I hope you will find a way to get the trust back from the people that where supporting your organisation.

http://promopof2.free.fr/FreakyHELL/freaky3.1187099095.jpg

On 2007-08-15 11:59, Rabbithole wrote:
Hijos de putas!

I have spent lot of time in spain (almost 2 years all in all), and never seen such agressive behaviour by the police.

Now Im glad I didnt go to the festival.

On 2007-08-16 02:01, djanahata wrote:
Here play some of our artists like Kali (live) Dj Moira, Dj Nektar and the organisation have check all what they need for to make legal festival! Check out http://www.calitasbay-festival.com ETM have Ambulance Service, fire Bomberos, Insurance for 3000-5000 guests, Security, Parking Place worker and the Police of El Campello help us with the traffic situation. We have complete Emergency- Plan for save all guest what try to come and for make it all in a legal way ...

On 2007-08-16 15:36, LiPoCat wrote:
http://www.dailymotion.com/happyleptik/video/4650698