Hellfest 2025. “In 18 years, it cost me five ribs, five teeth, one knee”. Pascal Maufret is Challengers security referent on the Mainstages

He does not play in muse or in the sex pistols but he is known as the white wolf on the Hellfest. The slammers land in his arms, the photographers love him … Meeting with Pascal Maufret at the foot of the bassings.

Who are the challengers? If you have attended the Hellfest one day or another, you necessarily saw them. They are 158 this year, positioned online in front of the festival scenes with a strong presence in front of the mainstants.

With the primary function of receiving slameurs at the end of the course and, in the event of high heat, as this year, to water festival -goers with a fire spear.

Pascal Maufret, referent on the mainstresses is a figure of the challengers. Many festival -goers fell into his arms for a smooth outing of a slam and the photographers, the media in general, love his look.

Long hair, dark glasses permanently, Pascal is very caring for festival -goers and his team. Eighteen years that it lasts, eighteen years and a few teeth less. “You will smile …”he has fun, “In 18 years, it cost me five ribs, five teeth, one knee. But I’m still there. And I’m not ready to leave, I think”.

Pascal is passionate and a Hellfest figure. And he knows it: “I could have bored like everyone else. Except that France 3, for example, helps me to hold. I like the media, I am quite comfortable. And I also have the famous lances for the heat wave. And there, I make a lot of friends. I save them somewhere. It is part of the little pleasures in addition to the post I have here to recover the slameurs, those who are worn by the crowd.”

And the rest of the year? Pascal is intermittent of the show: “I also work upstream of the Hellfest as what is called Scaffolder, that is to say scaffolding climber. And this year, among others, I made the ark, the cathedral, the campsite, the parking lot. I also made the editing of structures and handling scenes”.

In 18 years of good and loyal service, Pascal has seen a little of all colors but it is the job: “Yesterday, an anecdote, we already had a lot of unconscious people, of terrorized people. At the end of the concert, at the end of the set, I had a broken ankle, a young girl who had to be evacuated. Yesterday, among others, on Airbourne, who played, we were a little dismantled, but we never get over. We are used to it. “

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