Medic suspended after being filmed dancing at tragic Defqon.1 dance party

A MEDIC has been suspended after being filmed dancing at Saturday’s Defqon.1, where two people later died of drug overdoses.

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A MEDIC has been suspended after being filmed dancing at Saturday’s Defqon. 1, where two people later died of drug overdoses.

He was working for private firm EMS Event Medical when he started dancing while on a break. A nearby reveller captured the moment on video and uploaded it to social media.

Footage shows dancing medic from

private firm EMS Event Medical. Picture: Sky

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“I can confirm the medic on duty was on a sanctioned break at 6.15pm when there were no medical emergencies taking place,” EMS Event Medical director Mike Hammond said.

“He made a simple mistake by not removing his uniform before taking his break in a public area.”

Tragic event... The Defqon1 Music Festival on Saturday. Picture: Instagram

MUM OF DEAD DEFQON FAN PLEADS FOR TIME TO MOURN

THE shattered mother of a young reveller who died at a dance festival with an appalling record of drug deaths has begged politicians and campaigners to stop using her son’s death to push for pill testing and let her grieve.

Joseph Pham died over the weekend after attending Defqon from a suspected drug overdose. Picture: Facebook

Thi Pham said Greens and Labor politicians and campaigners are seizing on Joseph’s death in a clamour to call for on the spot drugs-testing less than 24 hours after he died from a suspected overdose at Defqon.

“I’m so sad … I feel sick, Joseph has just gone, we need time to mourn,” she told The Daily Telegraph from her home in the western Sydney suburb of Edensor Park.

“I don’t really care for what politicians want right now.”

Scenes from the 2016 Defqon1 Festival in Penrith. Picture: Instagram

COUNCIL ‘SPRUIKED FESTIVAL BENEFITS’ DESPITE DEATHS

The day before a Penrith dance festival with a history of fatal overdoses left two more young revellers dead from drugs, a senior local council official wrote an email saying they were “tremendously impressed” with preparations for the event.

The Daily Telegraph can also reveal a successful development application for the Defqon.1 concert in 2015 rated the likelihood of drug taking as “rare” — despite a person having died at the event just two years prior.