The giant drink planned in Mail Garden on internet didn't attract people

The giant aperitif planned by internet users on Facebook on the evening of june in Angers 18 didn't meet the expected success. Instead of thousands of people, only a few dozens were there, sadly sat on the benches of Mail Garden surrounded by iron fences where notices warned "Summer beds of flowers have just been realized in Mail Garden (more than 600 hours of work, more than 20 000 plants for gardener's team. Thank you to respect their work and to allow a flourished summer".

State and local authorities have joined their efforts to make that initiative manageable. Dozens of policemen, firefighters and rescuers were there outnumbering the drinkers. All participants were invited, and some of them checked, not to bring alcohol inside the Mail.

On the opposite side, candidates to a drink looked disappointed, deploring the lack of alcohol (some were 17 years old). But a few weeks ago, a similar event in Nantes caused the death of a young man probably drunk.

(News from Le Courrier de L'Ouest, Angers Mag Info)