"There are only a few festival-goers left who are cleaning everything up. They will make the land nickel, "appreciates the mayor of Villegongis, Jean-Marc Sevault. "It's still reassuring because when it falls on your back, we have fears." This Monday, relief prevailed in the small village of Indre, after four days of Tecknival. In a cloud of dust, in the middle of a ballet of tow trucks and dump trucks, the teufeurs left the heights of this town of 110 souls, under the control of the gendarmes and the rescue. The thirty-year-old techno event, faithful to tradition, had taken the inhabitants by surprise Thursday morning when the followers landed with their sound systems, despite the prefectural ban. Yet "overall, it went well. But, after, with 30,000 people, there were some incidents, "says the mayor of the village, alluding in particular to a broken bay window in an unoccupied house. For me it would have been a mistake to prevent," he adds.



The same goes for the owner of the 70-hectare field where the event took place. If Dominique Paillault was "afraid" when he was warned by the gendarmerie Thursday, the farmer was quickly reassured by the behavior of the teufeurs. "People think what they want, it didn't go that bad," he said. "The field was a fallow, they didn't damage too much."

Two vital prognoses still engaged

Marc Fleuret, the president of the departmental council of Indre has the hardest tooth against the teufeurs. "It is irresponsible to organize an event like this in a town of a hundred inhabitants," he said, judging that the device will be expensive for the surrounding municipalities and its services. "It is still too early to do the accounts. But just for firefighters, there are 35,000 euros," he said.

On the roads around the village, a few scattered groups of festival-goers leave the site, some with the help of tow trucks that have come to rescue broken down vans.

In front of the town hall, at the foot of a SMUR 36 truck, Dr. Lucie Marchais draws up a "satisfactory" medical report of the Teknival, thanks to an organization "set up very quickly, in three hours Thursday" and the mobilization of eight SMUR crews. In total, more than 119 patients were treated by her teams, with "a lot of excessive consumption of narcotics, a lot of cases of dehydration and hypoglycemia," she explains. Ten teufeurs in absolute emergency were evacuated to the hospitals of Châteauroux and Tours. Vital prognoses were still "uncertain" for two of them late Monday morning.

Monday morning, according to the prefecture, the police had carried out 27,707 checks, plus 11,378 road checks. Nearly 500 offences were recorded, mainly drug-related.

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