QIt seems far away, this Saturday, June 21, 1982… The fresh air of air brought by the election of François Mitterrand still blows on France. In a good -natured atmosphere, passers -by wander between the concerts. They will be more than a million to participate in the first music festival, launched under the leadership of the Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, with the ambition to promote, on the first day of summer, music in all its forms.
If the success of this cultural event has never denied since, to the point that music festivals are today organized in a hundred countries around the world, the contrast with this year is striking: looting of stores, stabs and sexual assaults, with 371 arrests in the night, and 14 people in …
