French Police Shut Down Huge Party Defying COVID-19 Restrictions

French Police Shut Down Huge Party Defying COVID-19 Restrictions
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, wearing a protective face mask, leaves following the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on Dec. 16, 2020. Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters
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PARIS—French police shut down on Saturday a huge party in northwestern France that had been under way since New Year’s Eve in defiance of a curfew and coronavirus restrictions on large gatherings.

About 2,500 people had attended the rave party in an unused warehouse in Lieuron, near Rennes, and some clashed with police on Saturday, police said.