- Police broke up a Belgian sex party of 56 people on Sunday for breaking COVID-19 regulations.
- It was across the street from Edmond-Jacques Hospital in Saint-Mard, near the French border.
- Belgium currently has a 10 p.m. curfew for non-essential workers and forbids gatherings of mixed households.
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Belgian police arrested 56 people at a sex party on Sunday at 3 a.m., reported the newspaper La Meuse.
Officers were called to a private residence in Saint-Mard, a city near Belgium's southern border with France, in the early hours of December 13.
The party took place across the street from the Edmond-Jacques hospital, where coronavirus patients are being treated, according to Newsweek.
There, they found 56 "scantily-clad" party-goers, a majority of whom were French nationals. Attendees were charged €250 to get into the party and subsequently fined another €250 for breaking the country's coronavirus regulations.
Guests were arrested for breaking COVID-19 regulations, which forbid gatherings between households and assert a 10 p.m. curfew for civilians. Some guests were also charged with possession of illegal drugs.
"Some people really don't respect anything. Organize a clandestine party in the middle of the night in front of a clinic where COVID patients are treated: this is unacceptable," François Culot, Mayor of Virton, told La Meuse.
According to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine, Belgium has had 608,137 total cases of COVID-19 and 17,951 deaths as of December 14.
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