Vestiville organisers arrested after Belgian fest chaos
Ravuth and Aymira Ty, and business partner Nik Chawda, are being detained by police on suspicion of defrauding contractors and partners
News By | 1 July 2019
The two organisers of the Vestiville festival are still being held in a Belgian jail, three days after the last-minute cancellation of a chaotic event dubbed, inevitably, ‘Fyre Festival 2.0’.
In their pre-event marketing, promoters of Vestiville – to have been headlined by Cardi B, Future, Asap Rocky and Migos – described the festival as “the new kid on the block” and said it aims to become “the premier hip-hop and urban music experience in Europe”. It was to have taken place in Lommel, near the Dutch border, from Friday 28 to Sunday 30 June, but was shut down by local authorities on the first day over safety concerns.
On Friday, the festival announced it would not go ahead, after the “mayor of Lommel decided not to let Vestiville start.…
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