{"id":2469450,"date":"2026-06-21T15:48:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2469450"},"modified":"2026-06-21T15:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:48:58","slug":"france-bans-alcohol-at-music-festival-events-under-red-heatwave-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/france-bans-alcohol-at-music-festival-events-under-red-heatwave-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"France bans alcohol at music festival events under red heatwave alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>France has banned alcohol at some events at a massive national music festival on Sunday as a heatwave pushes temperatures towards record levels.<\/p>\n<p>Annual F\u00eate de la Musique celebrations draw millions to the streets across France. But with a third of the country covered by the most serious heatwave warnings, the government has banned alcohol consumption in public places under the red alerts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor all events organised by the state and its agencies, instructions have been given not to offer alcohol,\u201d the office of Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu said.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures of 39-40C (102-104F) are expected from the southwest through the Paris region into Burgundy on Sunday, with some areas possibly reaching 41C.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-single-ad ad_single_index alignfull\">\n<div class=\"ad-wrap ad-image-wrap\"><span class=\"ad-description is-meta\">&#8211; Advertisement &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-image\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ad-destination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/kbc-taps-huduma-centres-to-reach-wananchi\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Temperatures have been forecast to peak on Monday, and authorities have warned they could match historic highs.<\/p>\n<p>The government has called for limits on alcohol consumption \u201cto preserve emergency and healthcare services and allow medical staff to focus on caring for the most vulnerable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The heatwave has been going for days and has disrupted the country, forcing the cancellation of dozens of trains and the suspension of classes.<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s weather service M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France said it was \u201cuncertain\u201d how long the heatwave, which has been estimated to affect about three quarters of the population, would last.<\/p>\n<p>To help Parisians and tourists cope with the heat, authorities are keeping parks and gardens in the French capital open through the night.<\/p>\n<p>F\u00eate de la Musique has been going for more than 40 years, and is always held on the summer solstice.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, about two million people attended events in Paris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '1537190806494566',\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v17.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.kbc.co.ke \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has banned alcohol at some events at a massive national music festival on Sunday as a heatwave pushes temperatures towards record levels. Annual F\u00eate de la Musique celebrations draw millions to the streets across France. But with a third of the country covered by the most serious heatwave warnings, the government has banned alcohol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2469451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2469450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/France-bans-alcohol-at-music-festival-events-under-red-heatwave.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2469450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469452,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469450\/revisions\/2469452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2469451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2469450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2469450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2469450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}