Organised ‘illegal’ ravers duped police with secret messages for rural party
Over 1,000 illegal ravers managed to dupe authorities with a highly sophisticated plan to take over an industrial estate for an Easter weekend party.
Some people travelled more than 200 miles to attend the event called EggTech or EggTek at the Kenfig Industrial Estate in Margam in Wales.
Hundreds of cars were dumped and witnesses reported seeing "semi-conscious bodies lying on the road" as four people were reportedly hospitalised.
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It has emerged that the event was organised using secret messages sent by text with people only finding out the location late on Saturday (April 8).
Wales Online reported that revellers travelled hundreds of miles from places like Totnes, Gloucester, Reading and Lincoln, which is more than 200 miles from the Kenfig Industrial Estate.
They told the publication that the Easter weekend event is known as EggTech – a techno rave which happens every year on Easter Sunday.
Chris, who travelled more than four hours on Saturday to get to the illegal rave, said the long journey had been "completely worth it".
Explaining how they find these raves, he said: "Basically they come out about a week before. Everyone sends their numbers in on the social media group and then everyone gets a group text saying: 'Ring this number on this day.' Then on the phone line it gives you a general area to go to.
"On Saturday night it said 'head to Bristol area'. So everyone in the country going was heading to Bristol last night.
"Then that changed to Cardiff as we were driving through the night.
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"That's the best thing. It's an adventure. Eventually you find out where you're going."
He added that police are "decent" when they rumble this type of event.
"It's just a bit of fun getting loads of people together and having a party," he said.
"I've always found as long as you're nice to the police they're decent."
Despite South Wales Police asking people to leave the scene, many hundreds were still raving well into the afternoon on Easter Sunday, more than 12 hours after it had begun.
On Sunday evening, police confirmed four people had been taken to hospital with non-serious injuries as the event was dispersed.
There have not been any arrests at this point as investigations into who the organisers are continues.
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