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Police appeal for footage of alleged violent attack at Perth’s Juicy music festival

Perth’s Juicy music festival last Friday was plagued by a violent attack, a lack of water and a last-minute change of venue, prompting an outcry on social media.

The Guardian has reached out to the organisers of the hip-hop festival, which has scheduled eight events in major cities across Australia and New Zealand over the summer, but they have not responded.

On Monday, Western Australia police appealed to festivalgoers to come forward with video footage of an alleged attack against a 27-year-old female security guard at the Red Hill Amphitheatre, the festival’s venue, on 20 January between 8.30 and 9pm.

Police said the security officer was assaulted during a disturbance in which the officer was involved in an attempt to separate two groups of people involved in an altercation.

Police allege the security guard was pulled to the ground from behind by her hair and kicked in the ribs during the attack. She was treated by paramedics at the scene.

Nine days before the Perth festival was scheduled to open, the event was forced to change venues from Stadium Park to Red Hill Amphitheatre 28km away, with organisers busing ticket holders to the new venue.

Festivalgoers reported on social media the new venue was ill-equipped to handle the 5,000-strong crowd, with water for drinking and in the portable toilet facilities running dry within two hours of the gates opening, as the temperature in North Perth climbed to 38C.

St John WA confirmed it transported four women to St John of God Midland hospital between 3.30pm and 5.30pm for heat-related issues.

Police have appealed to the public to help identify the alleged attackers of the security guard. They are looking for two females, short in height, with medium builds and brown hair, a male, short in height, with solid build, and shirtless, and another male, tall in height, with a slim build, also shirtless.