{"id":2173519,"date":"2026-10-01T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2173519"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:12:00","slug":"its-a-tool-of-mass-control-inside-frances-free-party-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2173519","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a tool of mass control\u2019: Inside France\u2019s free party crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1200\/0-0-1728-1152\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456218.jpeg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article longread\">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/music\/article\/71070\/1\/france-free-party-crackdown-ripost-law-raves-paris-djs\" data-article-id=\"71070\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-landscape-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img has-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.78\" data-template=\"Longread Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zombie._rar7\" class=\"img\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1400\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456218.jpeg\" width=\"2048\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"credit\">Photography @zombie._rar<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><time datetime=\"2026-10-01T11:12:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"01 October 2026\"><span class=\"month\">DateInMeta<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"1\">1,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical vertical - music\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\">Music<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/feature\">Feature<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>\u2018It\u2019s a tool of mass control\u2019: Inside France\u2019s free <span class=\"nowrap\">party crackdown<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>From deep tunnels beneath the surface of Paris to the banlieues on the edge of the city, we speak to the ravers, organisers and DJs affected by a new law cracking down on free parties <span class=\"nowrap\">in France<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-10-01T11:12:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"01 October 2026\"><span class=\"month\">October<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"1\">1,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - music\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\">Music<\/a><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/feature\">Feature<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-10-01T11:12:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"01 October 2026\"><span class=\"month\">October<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"1\">1,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/CharisMcGowan\"><br \/>\nCharis McGowan<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-6-images \">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">RIPOST protest free party, <span class=\"nowrap\">Paris, 2026<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37494\/0\/ripost-protest-free-party-paris-2026\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zombie._rar2\" class=\"img\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/220-0-1728-1152\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456216.jpeg\" width=\"1728\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37494\/1\/ripost-protest-free-party-paris-2026\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zombie._rar6\" class=\"img\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-829-1152-768\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456217.jpeg\" width=\"1152\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37494\/2\/ripost-protest-free-party-paris-2026\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zombie._rar7\" class=\"img\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-1728-1152\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456218.jpeg\" width=\"1728\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37494\/3\/ripost-protest-free-party-paris-2026\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zombie._rar10\" class=\"img\" height=\"1257\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/160-0-1886-1257\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456219.jpeg\" width=\"1886\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37494\/4\/ripost-protest-free-party-paris-2026\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zombie._rar12\" class=\"img\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/236-0-1728-1152\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456220.jpeg\" width=\"1728\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37494\/5\/ripost-protest-free-party-paris-2026\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zombie._rar19\" class=\"img\" height=\"1072\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-1608-1072\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456221.jpeg\" width=\"1608\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 6 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>I\u2019m in a technical corridor deep beneath central Paris. None of the lights are working, and the space is pitch black except for the glow of our iPhones and the odd crack of natural light filtering in from overhead. These subterranean tunnels are officially used by engineers and city maintenance workers, but unofficially they serve as a haven for graffiti taggers, Urbex enthusiasts and free party ravers like IRL, who has guided me down here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s like a small space in time away from a whole other life, where everyone is open-minded, willing to share and help others,\u201d says IRL as we slip down two caged ladders from an unlocked metal grate on a sidewalk just south of the Seine. \u201cThis space is important as we can fit in it: free to be ourselves, proud, useful.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>IRL is an artist and event organiser behind<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hise.fr\/\"><span>Hise<\/span><\/a><span>, a collective and label that gives space to artists <\/span>from marginalised backgrounds \u2013 including those who are neurodivergent, queer or financially vulnerable. She\u2019s been operating in the shadows for years \u2013 she\u2019s had to run from police, dodged court appearances and had equipment confiscated \u2013 but a new law in France threatens to crack down on free party organisers like IRL with far harsher penalties<span>. \u201cI\u2019m devastated,\u201d she says. \u201cIf you add up all the parties I\u2019ve ever thrown, I would face 40 years in jail.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The RIPOST law, introduced by Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez, groups free parties with a broader set of activities deemed disruptive to public order, including motorised rallies, squatting and the misuse of nitrous oxide. An acronym for \u201cImmediate Responses to Phenomena Disturbing Public Order, Security and Tranquillity\u201d, RIPOST takes a hardline approach to unauthorised public activity, promising what Nu\u00f1ez has called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.interieur.gouv.fr\/actualites\/actualites-du-ministere\/loi-ripost-avancee-majeure-pour-securite-des-francais\">a shock of authority and a shock of effectiveness<\/a>\u201d. For free parties specifically, the threshold for mandatory declaration has been lowered from 500 to 250 people, while organising an undeclared event can now carry up to two years in prison and a \u20ac30,000 fine, alongside possible equipment confiscation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"87d4c67a-2364-4962-8f0a-b4d4010c8352\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1536\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456212.jpeg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.75\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Caged Ladder (CMcGowan)\" class=\"img\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1536\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456212.jpeg\" width=\"1536\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">A ladder deep into the <span class=\"nowrap\">Parisian underground<\/span><\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photography Charis McGowan<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>The free party movement is typically associated with events much larger than the small raves IRL is involved in: massive, multi-day countryside parties rooted in the English rave scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. After free parties were criminalised under the UK\u2019s 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, rave collectives like Spiral Tribe decamped to France, helping to nurture a thriving scene across the Channel. The French government was slower to respond, introducing the Mariani Amendment in 2001, which gave police powers to confiscate equipment and sanction organisers, before expanding those powers further with RIPOST.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the tunnel, IRL points to where her crew would usually secure the entryway, lower the sound system into place and plug in the generators, explaining that many of Paris\u2019 small-scale raves \u2013 which range from 100 to 600 people \u2013 are organised by trans girls like herself.\u00a0\u201cWe have the strength to run these parties. It demands a lot of motivation and will to deal with problems along the way,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Even in Parisian clubs that label themselves queer, IRL says her community still encounters discrimination in booking practices and at the door. \u201cSome spaces that are queer friendly are in the end not as queer friendly as they say they are. It\u2019s a lot about appearances,\u201d she explains. \u201cA week ago I went to a club that was supposedly open and I got misgendered at the entrance. They were very harsh with their words when I told them. In the end, it\u2019s a business: a guy running spaces to make money out of it. They are still discriminatory to queer people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She is already planning unauthorised raves \u2013 kept below RIPOST\u2019s 250-person declaration threshold \u2013 but remains wary of the implications for her community. \u201cEven as someone willing to continue to do free parties, as I will, a lot of the ecosystem is scared and will not be willing to take the risk.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\">\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Human rights lawyer Sophie Mazas, who works with the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldh-france.org\/projet-de-loi-visant-a-offrir-des-reponses-immediates-aux-phenomenes-troublant-lordre-public-la-securite-et-la-tranquillite-de-nos-concitoyens-dit-ripost-2\/\"> League of Human Rights<\/a> (LDH), argues that the law risks framing party-goers as a public-order threat and legitimising a more aggressive police response. \u201cIt is just a big party, not a revolution,\u201d she questions. \u201cSo what is really the reason that justifies the legitimate use of flash balls [rubber bullets] on young people?\u201d The LDH argues that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldh-france.org\/projet-de-loi-visant-a-offrir-des-reponses-immediates-aux-phenomenes-troublant-lordre-public-la-securite-et-la-tranquillite-de-nos-concitoyens-dit-ripost-3\/\"> the RIPOST law is unconstitutional<\/a> and infringes upon civil liberties by extending measures originally intended for terrorist offences to forms of public gathering. That concern sits within a wider debate over police powers in France. In September, thousands marched across the country against a separate bill that would create a presumption of self-defence for officers who use their weapons \u2013 a proposal critics have dubbed a \u201clicence to kill\u201d<strong>.<\/strong> \u201cThe government uses the police for political oppression,\u201d Mazas warns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hardstyle DJ<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/paulorzoni\/?hl=en\"> Paul Seul<\/a>, who co-founded the Parisian collective<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/casualgabberzrecords\/?hl=en\"> Casual Gabberz<\/a>, frequently plays large-scale free parties across France, including Teknival in May, which drew tens of thousands of people to a former military site. \u201cI felt safer there than in the clubs,\u201d he recalls. \u201cThe sound systems were better, people cared about each other and about nature. No one was throwing plastic bottles on the floor, compared to other [regular] festivals, or even using drugs. It\u2019s very impressive to gather 20,000 to 30,000 people and see no incidents.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Seul originally came up through the Parisian club scene, but became immersed in free party culture through the hardstyle community, where he found a sense of liberation. \u201cThis city is a museum, owned by rich people, foreigners\u2026 gentrification,\u201d he says, sipping a black coffee at a caf\u00e9 next to Gare du Nord. \u201cIt\u2019s not a good city for clubs.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Echoing Mazas, he stresses the wider consequences of RIPOST on civil liberties and cultural life. \u201cIt\u2019s very serious. It\u2019s a political topic. They start with techno and free parties, cause it\u2019s easy to say \u2018they do drugs\u2019, \u2018they damage nature\u2019, but it\u2019s also going to affect the small neighbourhood traditions, events like Fete de la Musique. It\u2019s just a new tool of mass control.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He is critical of the lack of response from the wider Francophone pop and electronic scene to RIPOST, which was passed in August. \u201c[Belgian pop star] Ang\u00e8le\u2019s last video is [set] at a free party. She did it for the aesthetic, but didn\u2019t speak about this law. They\u2019re ripping off a culture, yet when we need a voice no one is there. Even Daft Punk were playing at free parties in their early days. There\u2019s so many people that could speak [up] about this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re ripping off a culture, yet when we need a voice no one is there. There\u2019s so many people that could speak up about this\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>The impact is already being felt beyond the free party scene, extending to artistic and cultural communities, including diasporic and queer groups in the city\u2019s banlieues. Boukan Records founder and artist Bamao Yend\u00e9 came up as a teenager in squats and warehouse parties around Cergy in the mid-2010s. \u201cWe didn\u2019t start in Paris, but in the suburbs,\u201d he says of scenes that have contributed to the richness of Parisian electronic music today. \u201cThere was a lot of diaspora, a lot of artists who weren\u2019t in formal education \u2013 people who were supposed to be at school but who went into painting, doing music, experimentation, trying to be dedicated to their art.\u201d We\u2019re speaking at Le Station, a venue that has become a home for diasporic and queer communities, but is itself facing a three-year closure for redevelopment \u2013 another reminder of how precarious these cultural spaces have become.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Back in the literal underground of the city, IRL attempts to switch on the lights using an open fuse box. She knows all the switches, plugs and routes down here, and shows me a saved map of the Catacombs \u2013 another subterranean space where she parties \u2013 on her phone. We\u2019ve been walking for five minutes through the tunnelled darkness and still haven\u2019t reached the chamber where the sound systems are usually set up. <\/span><span>\u201cNo one is judging me here,\u201d IRL remarks softly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now, she plans to <\/span>keep events below RIPOST\u2019s 250-person declaration threshold and film each attendee entering, creating a record of the numbers in case the register is confiscated by police<span> \u2013 measures intended to protect both her and her community from potential prosecution. \u201cThe project was born from necessity, for the community, to build our careers,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s a big part of my life to see artists struggling, queer voices, people with terrible situations but a lot of talent not having the possibility to have a scene, just to give them a place to play their first live. To decide repression is going to stop us is accepting that we won\u2019t have a place anymore, when we just have a tiny space in this city anyway. It\u2019s about giving hope, that we can make something out of it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Check the gallery above for a look inside a recent Hise free party organised in protest of RIPOST.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"article-footer\">\n<div class=\"article-series header tags\"><span class=\"heading\">More on these topics:<\/span><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\">Music<\/a><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/feature\">Feature<\/a><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/tag\/paris\">Paris<\/a><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/tag\/rave\">rave<\/a><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/tag\/protest\">protest<\/a><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"grid split-list__header\">\n<div class=\"section-header\">\n<div class=\"section-header__link\">\n<h2 class=\"section-header__title\">Trending<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section 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src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/220-0-1728-1152\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456216.jpeg\" width=\"1728\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37494\/1\/ripost-protest-free-party-paris-2026\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zombie._rar6\" class=\"img\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-829-1152-768\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456217.jpeg\" width=\"1152\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37494\/2\/ripost-protest-free-party-paris-2026\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zombie._rar7\" class=\"img\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-1728-1152\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456218.jpeg\" width=\"1728\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37494\/3\/ripost-protest-free-party-paris-2026\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zombie._rar10\" class=\"img\" height=\"1257\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/160-0-1886-1257\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456219.jpeg\" width=\"1886\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37494\/4\/ripost-protest-free-party-paris-2026\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zombie._rar12\" class=\"img\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/236-0-1728-1152\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456220.jpeg\" width=\"1728\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37494\/5\/ripost-protest-free-party-paris-2026\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zombie._rar19\" class=\"img\" height=\"1072\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-1608-1072\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456221.jpeg\" width=\"1608\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 6 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>I\u2019m in a technical corridor deep beneath central Paris. None of the lights are working, and the space is pitch black except for the glow of our iPhones and the odd crack of natural light filtering in from overhead. These subterranean tunnels are officially used by engineers and city maintenance workers, but unofficially they serve as a haven for graffiti taggers, Urbex enthusiasts and free party ravers like IRL, who has guided me down here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s like a small space in time away from a whole other life, where everyone is open-minded, willing to share and help others,\u201d says IRL as we slip down two caged ladders from an unlocked metal grate on a sidewalk just south of the Seine. \u201cThis space is important as we can fit in it: free to be ourselves, proud, useful.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>IRL is an artist and event organiser behind<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hise.fr\/\"><span>Hise<\/span><\/a><span>, a collective and label that gives space to artists <\/span>from marginalised backgrounds \u2013 including those who are neurodivergent, queer or financially vulnerable. She\u2019s been operating in the shadows for years \u2013 she\u2019s had to run from police, dodged court appearances and had equipment confiscated \u2013 but a new law in France threatens to crack down on free party organisers like IRL with far harsher penalties<span>. \u201cI\u2019m devastated,\u201d she says. \u201cIf you add up all the parties I\u2019ve ever thrown, I would face 40 years in jail.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The RIPOST law, introduced by Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez, groups free parties with a broader set of activities deemed disruptive to public order, including motorised rallies, squatting and the misuse of nitrous oxide. An acronym for \u201cImmediate Responses to Phenomena Disturbing Public Order, Security and Tranquillity\u201d, RIPOST takes a hardline approach to unauthorised public activity, promising what Nu\u00f1ez has called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.interieur.gouv.fr\/actualites\/actualites-du-ministere\/loi-ripost-avancee-majeure-pour-securite-des-francais\">a shock of authority and a shock of effectiveness<\/a>\u201d. For free parties specifically, the threshold for mandatory declaration has been lowered from 500 to 250 people, while organising an undeclared event can now carry up to two years in prison and a \u20ac30,000 fine, alongside possible equipment confiscation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"87d4c67a-2364-4962-8f0a-b4d4010c8352\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1536\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456212.jpeg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.75\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Caged Ladder (CMcGowan)\" class=\"img\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1536\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456212.jpeg\" width=\"1536\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">A ladder deep into the <span class=\"nowrap\">Parisian underground<\/span><\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photography Charis McGowan<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>The free party movement is typically associated with events much larger than the small raves IRL is involved in: massive, multi-day countryside parties rooted in the English rave scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. After free parties were criminalised under the UK\u2019s 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, rave collectives like Spiral Tribe decamped to France, helping to nurture a thriving scene across the Channel. The French government was slower to respond, introducing the Mariani Amendment in 2001, which gave police powers to confiscate equipment and sanction organisers, before expanding those powers further with RIPOST.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the tunnel, IRL points to where her crew would usually secure the entryway, lower the sound system into place and plug in the generators, explaining that many of Paris\u2019 small-scale raves \u2013 which range from 100 to 600 people \u2013 are organised by trans girls like herself.\u00a0\u201cWe have the strength to run these parties. It demands a lot of motivation and will to deal with problems along the way,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Even in Parisian clubs that label themselves queer, IRL says her community still encounters discrimination in booking practices and at the door. \u201cSome spaces that are queer friendly are in the end not as queer friendly as they say they are. It\u2019s a lot about appearances,\u201d she explains. \u201cA week ago I went to a club that was supposedly open and I got misgendered at the entrance. They were very harsh with their words when I told them. In the end, it\u2019s a business: a guy running spaces to make money out of it. They are still discriminatory to queer people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She is already planning unauthorised raves \u2013 kept below RIPOST\u2019s 250-person declaration threshold \u2013 but remains wary of the implications for her community. \u201cEven as someone willing to continue to do free parties, as I will, a lot of the ecosystem is scared and will not be willing to take the risk.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\">\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Human rights lawyer Sophie Mazas, who works with the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldh-france.org\/projet-de-loi-visant-a-offrir-des-reponses-immediates-aux-phenomenes-troublant-lordre-public-la-securite-et-la-tranquillite-de-nos-concitoyens-dit-ripost-2\/\"> League of Human Rights<\/a> (LDH), argues that the law risks framing party-goers as a public-order threat and legitimising a more aggressive police response. \u201cIt is just a big party, not a revolution,\u201d she questions. \u201cSo what is really the reason that justifies the legitimate use of flash balls [rubber bullets] on young people?\u201d The LDH argues that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldh-france.org\/projet-de-loi-visant-a-offrir-des-reponses-immediates-aux-phenomenes-troublant-lordre-public-la-securite-et-la-tranquillite-de-nos-concitoyens-dit-ripost-3\/\"> the RIPOST law is unconstitutional<\/a> and infringes upon civil liberties by extending measures originally intended for terrorist offences to forms of public gathering. That concern sits within a wider debate over police powers in France. In September, thousands marched across the country against a separate bill that would create a presumption of self-defence for officers who use their weapons \u2013 a proposal critics have dubbed a \u201clicence to kill\u201d<strong>.<\/strong> \u201cThe government uses the police for political oppression,\u201d Mazas warns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hardstyle DJ<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/paulorzoni\/?hl=en\"> Paul Seul<\/a>, who co-founded the Parisian collective<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/casualgabberzrecords\/?hl=en\"> Casual Gabberz<\/a>, frequently plays large-scale free parties across France, including Teknival in May, which drew tens of thousands of people to a former military site. \u201cI felt safer there than in the clubs,\u201d he recalls. \u201cThe sound systems were better, people cared about each other and about nature. No one was throwing plastic bottles on the floor, compared to other [regular] festivals, or even using drugs. It\u2019s very impressive to gather 20,000 to 30,000 people and see no incidents.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Seul originally came up through the Parisian club scene, but became immersed in free party culture through the hardstyle community, where he found a sense of liberation. \u201cThis city is a museum, owned by rich people, foreigners\u2026 gentrification,\u201d he says, sipping a black coffee at a caf\u00e9 next to Gare du Nord. \u201cIt\u2019s not a good city for clubs.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Echoing Mazas, he stresses the wider consequences of RIPOST on civil liberties and cultural life. \u201cIt\u2019s very serious. It\u2019s a political topic. They start with techno and free parties, cause it\u2019s easy to say \u2018they do drugs\u2019, \u2018they damage nature\u2019, but it\u2019s also going to affect the small neighbourhood traditions, events like Fete de la Musique. It\u2019s just a new tool of mass control.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He is critical of the lack of response from the wider Francophone pop and electronic scene to RIPOST, which was passed in August. \u201c[Belgian pop star] Ang\u00e8le\u2019s last video is [set] at a free party. She did it for the aesthetic, but didn\u2019t speak about this law. They\u2019re ripping off a culture, yet when we need a voice no one is there. Even Daft Punk were playing at free parties in their early days. There\u2019s so many people that could speak [up] about this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re ripping off a culture, yet when we need a voice no one is there. There\u2019s so many people that could speak up about this\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>The impact is already being felt beyond the free party scene, extending to artistic and cultural communities, including diasporic and queer groups in the city\u2019s banlieues. Boukan Records founder and artist Bamao Yend\u00e9 came up as a teenager in squats and warehouse parties around Cergy in the mid-2010s. \u201cWe didn\u2019t start in Paris, but in the suburbs,\u201d he says of scenes that have contributed to the richness of Parisian electronic music today. \u201cThere was a lot of diaspora, a lot of artists who weren\u2019t in formal education \u2013 people who were supposed to be at school but who went into painting, doing music, experimentation, trying to be dedicated to their art.\u201d We\u2019re speaking at Le Station, a venue that has become a home for diasporic and queer communities, but is itself facing a three-year closure for redevelopment \u2013 another reminder of how precarious these cultural spaces have become.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Back in the literal underground of the city, IRL attempts to switch on the lights using an open fuse box. She knows all the switches, plugs and routes down here, and shows me a saved map of the Catacombs \u2013 another subterranean space where she parties \u2013 on her phone. We\u2019ve been walking for five minutes through the tunnelled darkness and still haven\u2019t reached the chamber where the sound systems are usually set up. <\/span><span>\u201cNo one is judging me here,\u201d IRL remarks softly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now, she plans to <\/span>keep events below RIPOST\u2019s 250-person declaration threshold and film each attendee entering, creating a record of the numbers in case the register is confiscated by police<span> \u2013 measures intended to protect both her and her community from potential prosecution. \u201cThe project was born from necessity, for the community, to build our careers,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s a big part of my life to see artists struggling, queer voices, people with terrible situations but a lot of talent not having the possibility to have a scene, just to give them a place to play their first live. To decide repression is going to stop us is accepting that we won\u2019t have a place anymore, when we just have a tiny space in this city anyway. It\u2019s about giving hope, that we can make something out of it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Check the gallery above for a look inside a recent Hise free party organised in protest of RIPOST.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/article\/71070\/1\/france-free-party-crackdown-ripost-law-raves-paris-djs&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1200\/0-0-1728-1152\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/6\/1456218.jpeg&#8221;] Photography @zombie._rar DateInMeta\u00a0 1,\u00a0 2026 Music \/ Feature \u2018It\u2019s a tool of mass control\u2019: Inside France\u2019s free party crackdown From deep tunnels beneath the surface of Paris to the banlieues on the edge of the city, we speak to the ravers, organisers and DJs affected by a new law cracking down on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,76],"class_list":["post-2173519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-dazeddigital-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2173519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2173519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2173519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2173519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}