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ARCHIVED - Over 100 weekend fines for street drinking and flouting curfew in Alicante
Despite issuing 107 fines, Alicante police say there was "high compliance" with Covid measures
Alicante police issued 84 fines to people caught drinking in the street and on beaches, known as botellones - which carry fines of up to €30,000 - and a further 23 for flouting the city's 1am to 6am nightly curfew.
But despite a busy weekend, the force and the regional government's Department of Security reports that "the first weekend of August ended with a high degree of compliance with anti-Covid measures enforced by the Generalitat Valenciana".
In addition to the street fines, a total of 23 illegal parties with gatherings of 10 people or more in homes that were "generating noise and complaints from neighbours" were broken up, and officers evicted customers and fined the owner of a bar in Avenida San Sebastian for serving drinks at 2.45am on Saturday morning.
Just a few hours later, an establishment in Calle Poeta Pastor was forced to close after a patrol discovered a number of people dancing and not wearing masks.
Of the other sanctions imposed from Friday evening through to Monday morning, August 2, they were several imposed for drug offences, disobedience and disrespecting authority.
IMAGE: Ayuntamiento de Alicante
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