Rock in the Seine Officially Becomes Non-Smoker: the Announcement Provokes an Outcry on Social Networks
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For its 2026 edition, under the law, Rock en Seine, became a tobacco-free festival. The announcement, late, provoked the wrath of festivalgoers.
In a message published on Instagram, the organizers indicate that the prefecture of Côte d'Or issued, on 15 June 2026, an order to protect forests and prevent the departure of fire, "due to weather conditions and drought".
It will be forbidden to smoke in the enclosure of Golden Coast, near Dijon, learned Tuesday ICI Burgundy. If the rap festival highlights the risk of fire, it actually obeys a decree. The same text also imposes these restrictions at the Rock festival in the Seine, in the Paris region.
Major change for this third edition of the Golden Coast rap festival, which starts this Friday, it will be forbidden to smoke. A decision taken by the organizers, in connection with the prefecture, to limit the risk of fire.
This Tuesday, August 25, the director of the festival organized for next weekend at Combe à la Serpent revealed to us one of the strong measures taken to reduce the risk of fire as much as possible.
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