It is 6:30 p.m. this Friday, August 1. It activates at the advanced medical position at the Interceltic festival. Located at the Lycée Saint-Louis, this central body for the coordination of personal aid is already on deck. Samia Mennal returns from a big intervention in the perimeter of the festival. A 76 -year -old woman has just made a cardiac arrest. Thanks to the action coordinated with the SMUR, his days are no longer in danger. “It starts hard,” said the emergency doctor who fears the upcoming heat wave. She has run the advanced medical post for four years and this start of the festival is not usual. The 60 volunteers from the French first aid center will accommodate a hundred people a day. They will take turns during the ten days of the festival. A real marathon.
This Friday, the prefect of Morbihan Michaël Galy came to greet their commitment. Appointed last May, the man from Toulouse participates here in his first interceltic festival. What does he remember from this first immersion? “The professionalism of the organization and its great fluidity. Everyone is running. ” The prefect has just visited the interservice command post. Located near the medical position, the site coordinates all the actors who provide security: SDIS, police, city services, civil security associations or private security companies. All calls arrive here, around 150 each day, for very diverse motifs, from water leak to discomfort. It is the operational strategic basis. The eyes of the festival too. Here, all flows are recorded instantly. Via a camera system, we know precisely the filling rate of the many areas of the festival. This Friday, August 1, the counters confirm that, on the attendance side, this opening day is exceptional.
After visiting the interservices command post and the advanced medical post, the prefect went to the festival site for wandering. Here alongside Florence Bessy, sub-prefect, Jean-Paul Kihl, president of the festival, and Fabrice Loher, mayor of Lorient (Vincent Le Guern)
“People come over because they feel safe there”
In total, 900,000 people are expected but it could be even more. So, there is no question of skimp on security. “It has been a major concern for years. People come in the course because they feel safe there, “said Jean Paul Kihl the president of a festival that wants to be” popular and family “. Precisely, the prefect indicated that the security system was going to be reinforced. He spoke of the presence of “several hundred people” among the police: national police (CRS reinforcements), gendarmes, municipal police, Sentinel force … Visibility on the ground will also be increased with pedestrian patrols, an equestrian brigade, motorized brigades, the use of drones … Objective in the event of an incident.
