Observer Report / 0066｜“A new tool of mass control” France’s RIPOST law draws the free party declaration line at 250 people
Index EN 中文 INCODER Observation Archive “A new tool of mass control”France’s RIPOST law draws the free party declaration line at 250 people On 1 October Dazed recorded the free party scene after France’s RIPOST law passed. The declaration threshold fell from 500 to 250 people, and organisers face up to two years. This page records how a scene’s average size became a legal line. Filed By OBSERVER 1994 Report 0066 Encoded 3C-R8-P4 // recurring focus: the gathering as a regulated unit: rave law and the headcount threshold; the sound system as licensed equipment; rental records as soft surveillance; the declaration as permission to assemble; the free party as an institution with no certifying body; what a scene does once...