The Day Rababou Burned

02 Mar 2014 Some videos from Carnaval today in Fribourg, ending with the burning of the wood thief Rababou. Basically an acid trip where everyone is speaking in a foreign language (well because they were). Most surreal moment: the guy dressed as Cinderella (whoops Snow White, eh?) leading the band of Dwarfs? You make the call from these short clips.

Set up for this one: we are in a wall to wall sea of people walking behind the parade into Place de Petit St-Jean square in Fribourg’s Vieux Ville. It feels like this only more cramped.

A bit of Rababou’s trial. He had no real defence and for each charge read the crowd wailed “Rababouuuuu”.