Since New Year’s Eve, thousands of people in Spain have been celebrating an unregistered rave party. Drug trafficking and consumption flourished at the site not far from Ciudad Real airport, almost 200 kilometers south of Madrid, the newspaper “El Mundo” and other media reported. The airport operators have even filed a complaint.
One participant was arrested on drug trafficking charges on Friday, the fourth day of the so-called ‘Big Fucking Party 2025’. However, the authorities do not want to put an end to the illegal activities for the time being. Getting the participants to leave the area was a difficult task, the security representative of the Spanish Ministry of the Interior in the Castile-La Mancha region, Milagros Tolón, told TV channel RTVE. “It is riskier to evacuate than to control.” However, 170 police officers were deployed outside the area to keep an eye on the party, she pointed out.
According to authorities, there are about 5,000 participants – the number of unreported cases is higher
“If there are many of us and we stick together, they cannot stop us,” said 23-year-old Catalan Laia in “El Mundo”. According to reports, in addition to Spaniards, revelers from abroad also took part in the rave, for example from Germany, Portugal, England, France, Switzerland or the Netherlands. According to authorities, there are approximately 5,000 people. The media estimate the number of participants to be considerably higher. At temperatures around freezing, the festivities must continue until January 6.
The site includes seven stages, numerous snack stalls, facilities for rope acrobatics and an inflatable bouncy castle, reports “El Mundo”. And that’s not all. A note on the back window of a van bluntly advertises ‘Pills Cocaine Ketamine Mushrooms Weed’, as seen in a photo published by the newspaper.
Due to the noise, the techno festival also harms wildlife in the nearby bird sanctuary ‘Campo de Calatrava’, scientists complained.
Party was promoted through social networks
The organizers are unknown to the authorities. According to media and authorities, the event was advertised on social networks in an industrial area. However, the exact location was only announced shortly before the start “to prevent leaks”, wrote “El Mundo”. Similar New Year celebrations have already taken place in Spain in Granada in 2023 and in Murcia in 2024.
Source: Krone
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